- Paperback: 192 pages
- Publisher: Bantam Doubleday Dell; New edition edition (1 Jan 2000)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0440400597
- ISBN-13: 978-0440400592
- Product Dimensions: 13.5 x 1.3 x 19.3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (20 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 328,711 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Meet the All-of-a-Kind Family -- Ella, Henny, Sarah, Charlotte, and Gertie -- who live with their parents in New York City at the turn of the century.
Together they share adventures that find them searching for hidden buttons while dusting Mama's front parlor and visiting with the peddlers in Papa's shop on rainy days. The girls enjoy doing everything together, especially when it involves holidays and surprises.
But no one could have prepared them for the biggest surprise of all!
Together they share adventures that find them searching for hidden buttons while dusting Mama's front parlor and visiting with the peddlers in Papa's shop on rainy days. The girls enjoy doing everything together, especially when it involves holidays and surprises.
But no one could have prepared them for the biggest surprise of all!
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
fascinating and heartwarming,
By A Customer
This review is from: All-of-a-Kind Family (Paperback)
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.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Still as wonderful to read now as it was thirty years ago!,
By A Customer
This review is from: All-of-a-kind Family (A Yearling book) (Paperback)
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.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
I can remember the plot 30 years later!,
By A Customer
This review is from: All-of-a-kind Family (A Yearling book) (Paperback)
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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