All-Of-A-Kind Family

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Summary: A book that everyone will love!!!
Review: All-of-a-kind family is one of the best books I've ever read. It is a heart-warming story about a poor family's eveyday life at the turn of the century. Sydney Talor makes the book so interesting and intriguing, I just couldn't put it down. Whenever I left off I was dying to read it. The descriptions are so great and so is the description of their clothes. I think the way that seven people can survive with such little money is incredible. What it does show is that loving families strive to make what good they can. One of the reasons I love this book is because it puts you in the shoes of a turn-of-the-century family. While you are reading this fascinating book you are picking up facts from the early 1900's. For example there was such good detail that I could picture clothes that I had never seen before. This book taking place in the 1900's definitely made it a lot better. All-of-a-kind family is a great book and is recommended to everyone!

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Summary: Still as wonderful to read now as it was thirty years ago!
Review: I have never forgotten this delightful book, which I first read while in 3rd grade, thirty years ago. I was so excited to see a reissue that I had to buy it! I must have read it twenty times during my grade school years. I was one of three Lutheran families living a predominantly Jewish neighborhood in the suburbs of Chicago and the book brought the lives, beliefs and culture of these warm and wonderful families to life for me. This was in the 60's, not the turn of the century, but the story is timeless. I wanted one of the pinafore dresses that the girls wore so badly that I badgered my poor mother for weeks until she made one for me. I loved it and wore it until it was practically a rag! What a happy memory and the return of an old, beloved friend.

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Summary: This is one of the most beautiful books ever written
Review: This is one of the most beautiful books ever written .I read it over and over, but never get tired of it anyone would LOVE this book.

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Summary: I finally found it again!
Review: I read these books in grade school and loved them. I have been trying to remember the name of the series for years, and finally included it in a review (No Flying in the House- another great book available from Amazon). Thank you to Amazon for helping me find all of these books that were so much a part of my childhood! This series was one of my favorites- I remember laughing so hard that I couldn't stop at all of their antics, and halfway longing that I had lived then. These are a must read for any child.

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Summary: All of A Kind Family was exciting.
Review: It was inperdictable, unlike other books were you can perdict what will happen, but some parts were very dull and it made you feel like you wanted to put the book down a stop reading. You can decide for yourself but that is what I think.

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Summary: I Loved It!!!
Review: I am six years old and just finished this book. I read some and my parents read some to me. I especially liked reading about a family where there are only girls. I also liked learning about Jewish life in New York City many years ago. I am looking forward to reading other books in the All-of-a-Kind Family series.

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Summary: Turn-of-the-century Jewish experience - a child's-eye view.
Review: Sydney Taylor won the Follett Publishing Company book award - she didn't even know her husband, Ralph, had submitted her first novel to the publisher! - for this, her first children's book. Thus began a career that is most distinguished for the series detailing the adventures of five sisters early in this century. Most distinguishing about them is the fact that they are Jewish, not as a stereotyping characteristic but rather a means to explore landscape that hadn't yet been handled in children's literature. This first in the series is particularly insightful in its introduction of the Jewish high holy days - Sabbath days, Yom Kippur, Purim and Succos among them. (Plus, the author even throws in the Lower East Side's celebration of a purely American event - Fourth of July - to demonstrate that this bright-spirited family is tied not merely to its religious roots but is nationalistic as well!) While All-of-a-Kind Family is one of those falsely sunny books that came out of the 1940s and 1950s, it's nice to believe that this is the life that Taylor lived as a child. (Incidentally, Taylor's real name was Sarah, and the stories are based loosely on her own childhood. All of the sisters' names are real.) Sydney Taylor died in February 1978. This initial story was followed by four more books in the series: More All-of-a-Kind Family, All-of-a-Kind Family Uptown, All-of-a-Kind Family Downtown and, published posthumously, Ella of All-of-a-Kind Family.

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Summary: One of the most treasured memories from my reading past!!
Review: What joy this book brought to me when I read it and the sequels in elementary school!!! For a Protestant girl from Texas who had no siblings living at home after I was nine, these books were PERFECT to help me see the world from a completely different perspective. This is the kind of experience that engenders understanding, kindness, and friendship. The best part is that children can read these books and learn positive, loving attitudes before they are polluted with the negatives. I am now buying it for my granddaughters. I only wish that I could find the sequels!!

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Summary: I finally found this book
Review: I read this book as a child. Since then, I have been desperately searching for it. Unfortunately, though I could remember specific scenes from the book, I couldn't remember the title or author. Finally, after years of describing the plot to hundreds of children's librarians and bookstore owners, a chance remark from an aquaintance gave me the title. I am so excited to find it here at Amazon. For a young Jewish girl growing up in the 1960s, it wasn't easy finding Jewish characters in books. That is one of the things that made this book so special to me. Yet, I would urge any young girl (or boy) to read it, regardless of the religion of the child. It is a warm, funny, enjoyable read for children of all ages, and I can't wait to finally read it again.

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Summary: A great story of family life early this century.
Review: I read this book for the first time last summer at age 11. I won it a my library's summer reading program and was rather annoyed because it wasn't the book I wanted. But as soon as I picked it up I loved it, and couldn't put it down. I thought the girls were really adorable and liked hearing about the simple pleasures they got out of life. It made me more aware of the many privilages we have now and how much we take for granted. And now I hear their are secuals! I can't wait to find them.