I think Henry had a point. He wanted to go and beat up the Italian boys. But Grandpa Chin had a good point also. He shook his head no. And the grandfather Chin had a good idea about making another kite, a dragon. And he said, "Everybody respects dragons." Even though he wasn't trying to scare away the Italians' pigeons, he was still kind of sorry that he was doing that. So the reason why the boys still threw rocks, because the kites were scaring away their pigeons. That will be useful to them.

Henry and the kite Dragon........

one thing a thought was bad was when Tony and his friends ripped and shredded all the other kites. THey could have just talked to them and said that is my homing pigeon - please stop. But they had to throw rocks and make them mad. The reason I think the kids from Chinatown began to repsect Tony's prespective becasue if they were him they would want him to stop too. When they launched all those kites, they were really trying to say, "Stop" because if I kept going over and over again I wouldn't see that they wanted to stop and if Tony knew where Grandfather Chin lived he could go up there and say this is my pigeon and they could put something up there to show it was his pigeion. Even if there were no pigeons the people in Chinatown the kids and grandfather Chin shouldn't be chasing any kinds of bird becasue you could actually scare the bird to death.
I think that the other thing they learned from Grandfaher was to respect different people and to go talk to them and see if everything is OK. I think when Tony cries it shows another side of him because everyone is afraid of him but he is only protecting his pigeons. WHen he begins to cry in front of the kids I think the kids saw the sensitive side of him too. when Grandfather Chin says "Eneryone respects dragons" he was wrong because when Tony and his friends started throwing rocks it shows they don't know anything about Chinese culture and you can't put all the balme on them because they don't know anything about the Chinese culture and they don't know that the dragons are sacred. In the part when Tony cries instead of getting angry that really surpirsed me because everyone thinks he a big bad monstor thing and when he cries it shows that inside he is just a pup. The reason I think that the author wanted to write stories for kids to kids is because when you write books for kids it can be true or not ture stories when you write those stories and you have some of those kids in your town you can start reading and learning more about kids in those other countries. when all the kids were is the park it was a SMART ideia for Grandfather Chin to lanuch the dragon kite, it got the kids disteracted so the chineses kids couldn't start the fight.

Henry and the Kite Dragon

Hi, it's me, Petar. Other than kite making, I think the kids learned not to anger and fight. The kids were going to go beat the Italian kids up, and he said "Well, we'll just have to go and make another one." The kids did not understand him, however. After they finished making the dragon kite, Grandfather Chin said that the Italians would not throw rocks at it because everyone respects dragons. But, they still threw rocks. I think that Chinese people do respect dragons, but Italian people do not respect dragons. Also, the Italians were worried about their pigeons more than they were about the kites.

Kites

Henry and the kite dragon

This is a pretty cool story!!It talks about different cultures' special custom,and the clash between them,but in the end they all became good friends.I like the conclusion.The Grandfather Chin gives me some sort of mysterious feeling just as other Chinese antient stories.I also like the painthings in this book, they are all amzing,aren't they?

Henry And The Kite Dragon

I like the illustration of the book, it has bright colors.
About this story, when i read the pages that Tony threw stones to kites again and again, i was so angry, i did think Tony was a bad guy, if i were Henry, i would have bumped him. But at the end of the story, i finally got that Tony was not bad. He just wanted to protected his pigeons.

Grandpa's kites were fabulous, huge and beautiful. And he did really like to make kites though they had broken by Tony.

Henry And The Kite Dragon

I think this story is talking about the different race cause the misunderstanding. In the story, the

Chinese kids and the Italian kids had misunderstanding at first. But after Grandfather Chin

made the dragon kite, they knew why the Italian kids always threw stones to the kites, and they

finally were friends.

we always misunderstand others in our life, but if we can understand why they do that, the

misunderstanding can be solved at last.

Henry dragon kite

Grandfather Chin was a really cool person. He could made so many kinds of kites. He always made a new kite after the kite was torn by Tony and his friends. He was so tolerant that he had never been angry with that children who damaged the kites when Henry was furious and even wanted to fight with them. Mr.Chin was an great artist and a wonderful neighbor.

*China town is a really narrow place where is full of people.

Henry and the Kite Dragon

This book is about this man name Mr. Chen. He makes kites. One day he flew his bird kite and he scared this pigeon. And this boy named Tony threw rocks at the kite. And they stomped it. And Grandpa Chen said, "we will just have to make another one." So they made a Caterpillar. And it scared the pigeon again. So they threw rocks at it. They ripped it. So Grandpa Chen told Henry to go get all his friends. And then when they walked into the door, the kite was waiting for them to pant and then all of them marched on top of the roof and then grandpa Chin flayed the kite and it corverd the whole sky and everyone looked. And tony and his friends stared throughing rocks again. And Henry was getting mad and he and his friends was about to fite and then they became friends.

Hi, It's me, Petar. I think that there was a misunderstanding between the kids. The Chinese thought the Italians were being mean by destroying their kites, and the Italians tought the Chinese were being mean by chasing their pigeons. But, they did not talk to each other. They should have talked to each other earlier. If they had, the kites would not have been destroyed, and the pigeons would not have been scared away. They did talk to each other, but it was too late. Talking is important, especially in situations like that. I do not understand why the Italians destroyed the kites. All they had to do was get them down. I am glad that they got together in the end.

The other side (by Grace)

The book deals about the walls between the black people and the white.
The children, (i forgot the names) their parents' don't allow them to cross the fence
because they are afraid that their children might be bullied by the children on the other
side of the fence(just because of their colors)
I feel sorry for the children because they are educated with the wrong thoughts. Both the
white and the black are kind-hearted, and they are eager to play with one another just as
children do. Actually, if we can open our mind to accept each other and treat the other with
sincerity, our friendship will last long regardless the countries or races we are from.
Fortunately, the children broke the fence and became good friends, they also find it happy
to play with people of the different race as well , the thought that not to despise others is truly
of great value. To conclude, we should not have any discrimination of different kinds of people,
if we are willing to, we can become close friends.

The other side Evelyn

Many times when children ask questions the adults will say, “That’s just the way it is.” What does that answer mean? Why do the adults say that?
Children are always curious, but adults are sometimes too lazy to explain. Maybe they think children are too young to understand. And as the days go by, little children turn into adults, they are not curious anymore. Also, they don't want to spend time answering their children's questions.

the other side

I think this story's main idea is same with our first book.They all talk about no matter what color our skin is, what really matter is that the heart we use to get alone with those who have different skin color with us, and I really like this story,both its pictures and words!!

the other side

It's a good story.My favorite part is at last.The little girl said that someday the fence will be knock down.That means the wall between them will disappear some day. I can't realize why the white American still discriminate against African American recently. It's not fair to any people.

the three question

its allycat

this is the girl that made a friend with annie

I like the book becuse it is itoresting

The Three Question.

Today we asked question and then we gave the answer. In the book she was saying some day someone is going 2 nock the fence down. And I think that if Marthe Luther king Jr. was still alive then he would have been done nock the fence down.







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other people

1. when kids ask a questions the parents say "that's just the way it is" i think they mean they don't know or they don't want to anser or they really don't feel like they want to anser.
when you see your parents roll their eyes you know they are thinking of an exuexcuse to say to you!! DON'T FALL FOR IT!!!!!!!!!!! just say "ok" and walk away sadly then they will give you the TRUE anser!!!!!!

The Other Side ☺♥☻2

Hi, its me, Petar. I think that the author meant that the girls were getting lonelier, and lonelier when it said in the book that the fence was getting bigger. they wanted to play with each other, but they couldn't.

the other side

Clover's friend Sandra was jealous at the beginning. Why rejected Annie to play with them?
But at last they became good friends i think.
Because of the fence, Clover couldn't go out to the other side of the house without her mother's permision. it's a pitty that Clover and even Annie couldn't have more friends to play with.
However, they were good friends at the end, just because of the fence.
it seemed that the fence is the ship between Annie and Clover

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The Other Side (☺♥☻)

Hi, it's me, Petar. ☺ I think that the two girls wanted to play with each other. ☻ They did not care wether they were white or African American. ☻ However, their parents did care. :( They hated each other. :( But Clover's mother let her play with Annie. ☻ I think that the fence symbolizes segregation and their hate for one another. : I hope that that fence has been knocked down (if it is a real story).

The Other Side.

I think what Jacqueline Woods is trying to say is that when their is war going on then you can not be with white people because the white & the black are having problem's but then later on in the years than the war is over. But I think back than u could play. In the book the to kids parents said don't go across that fence. But than one day they said that are mom said we can not set on the fence so they got to know each other and than when Annie's friends said can we play than she said I don't care than they all became friends.

the other side

I like the book becuse it is varey intoresting and i think that thay should be abil to talk and play they should not be seporated and my favorit part is when all of Clovers freinds sit on the fince with Anney that is my favorit part in the book becuse like i said befor they sould not be seporateted. Whats your favorit parat in the book you can tell me if you know who i am or you can write me or you dont have to do eney of those thigs at all. if i have not told you why i think that thay sould not be saported I will now. they should not be seporated becuse its MEAN and its not FAIR to the whits and the africin amarcin and they sould just all be friends and stop all the fighting and putting all african amaricins in the bace of the bus and stop all of the fithing like the wor thats what i think and thats whats i have to say about this book and nowe you can post me or tell me if you know me or you dont have to tell me eney of that stuff or you dont have to post me ther but i would relly like if you did. Thank you

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clover's mom

1. i think clover's mom is nice because when she saw her and Annie on the fence she did not freake. most people would if the black's and white's were sperated. But she didn't, so she seemed nice to me.
2. i think that Annie's mom in the story is stuck up and really don't care about anything but her, and her daughter. when clover's mom said "not to stare" i think she was stareing at them to!!!
3. i think that Annie is more adventurest than Clover because she will go out in the rain even if her mom says no. the reason i said that last part is because when she was on the fence she said that her mom said that she could not "CROSS the fence. she diden't say anything about sitting on it." (exact words) and Clover said "my mom diden't say that ether" (exact words)

Big Box

The adults are selfish.They gave the children what they think that suits them but they didn't think about if the children like it.They just threw them into the big box and left them away.They didn't care about the children.They put them into a circle to avoid them making mistakes.They didn't teach them the correct thing.The children are so poor.

The big box

I think adults want children to do is to follow their thoughts. I agree sometimes parents'

thoughts are more useful and practical. But if they don't think about our thoughts and just want

us to do which they think is right , it is not reasonable. So I think sometimes adults can take our

advice.