Hall, Bruce Edward. Henry and the Kite Dragon.(Brief Article)(Book Review)

* HALL, Bruce Edward. Henry and the Kite Dragon. illus. by William Low. unpaged. CIP. Philomel. 2004. RTE $15.99. ISBN 0-399-23727-5. LC 2003016381.

K-Gr 4-Henry Chu lives in New York City's Chinatown in the 1920s. He loves everything things about it, from eating tasty dumplings to making and flying kites with his neighbor, Grandfather Chin. One day when Grandfather's spectacular butterfly kite is chasing a pigeon, Tony Guglione and his friends from Little Italy throw rocks at it and destroy it. Then they ruin his magnificent caterpillar. When they attack Grandfather's dragon kite, Henry and his companions confront them. The children almost come to blows, but when the …