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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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I was given this as a prize at my junior school in 1969, and read it over and over and treasured it for years.Sadly I lost it when I lent it to someone and it was never returned.I now work for a library and have asked for it to be ordered for our stock.
The story is about a large Jewish family in America around the end of the 19th/start of the 20th century. It follows the fortunes of all the children, from the baby to the teenager, and all the customs and traditions of Jewish life. Gripping from beginning to end.This book will appeal to many different age groups, and would be lovely to read as well as have someone read it to you.
The story is about a large Jewish family in America around the end of the 19th/start of the 20th century. It follows the fortunes of all the children, from the baby to the teenager, and all the customs and traditions of Jewish life. Gripping from beginning to end.This book will appeal to many different age groups, and would be lovely to read as well as have someone read it to you.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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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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I first read this book in my childhood and somehow lost it, although it was a favourite. A Jewish family of 5 girls growing up in New York at the turn of the century, it's a kind of Jewish "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn". Although I have not read it since then, I still remember so many details - the scratchy tights, the game of "hunt the button" that the mother set up to encourage the girls to tidy the house (it doesn't work on my children, but it was a great idea!), the uneaten soup as a first sign of illness, the festivals - Jewish (Passover etc) and American (Independence Day).
So many Jewish books for children are about the Holocaust or Eastern European Pogroms, or modern day stories. I'm looking forward to re-reading it now and I'm sure my children will enjoy it - I'll keep the website posted!
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all of a kind family. childrens story
I first read this book as a child and the title for some reason stuck in my mind.It was interesting to read it again. Read more
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I finally found it again!
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-... Read more
Published on 23 July 1999
All of A Kind Family was exciting.
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... Read more
Published on 13 April 1999
Wonderful!!!
I have always loved Sydney Taylor's "All of A Kind Family" books, ever since I was little. Read more
Published on 12 Mar 1999
Turn-of-the-century Jewish experience - a child's-eye view.
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! Read more
Published on 14 Dec 1998
One of the most treasured memories from my reading past!!
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... Read more
Published on 7 Dec 1998
A great story of family life early this century.
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. Read more
Published on 17 July 1998
Engaging story of close-knit Jewish family, in 1912 NY.
I read this series multiple times as a secular Jew growing up in Queens in the late 1950s, and loved them for their "Jewishness" and their inclusion of cultural details... Read more
Published on 8 July 1998
FAMILY IDEALS IN OLD NEW YORK
This special book opens the private doors into a warm, boisterous, Jewish home with five daughters, in New York's East Side in 1912. Read more
Published on 2 July 1998
Excellent Story for young girls
I read this book when I was 10 years old. I got the book from my own catholic shool library and I remember hownice it was to read a story about another family's heritage. Read more
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