Susan Tyrrell, Drachen selber bauen, 175 pages, ISBN 3-453-41371-7 (german translation of "Kites - The Gentle Art of Flying High")

This book contains lots of background information about kites - stories, history, pioneers, principles of kite flight - as well as an overview of many different types of kites. It makes a good bedside book, but it's not suitable for actually building kites. The plans are really lousy.