All-Of-A-Kind Family Downtown

My 9 year old LOVES this series. I also have a struggling reader (12) who loves them, we use the books to read aloud and in their own. MUST HAVE!

The story is delightful, 5 sisters in one family, living life, learning, being taught how to live.

I read the whole series when I was a child,starting with All of a Kind Family, all the way to the last title. They were all fabulous. For the information of potential readers, the library mentioned in the first book , on East Broadway in NYC, is still there, a working library. If you visit NYC you can see it. The books present a picture of the way immigrants families worked hard to become Americans, just as they continue to today.

I grew up reading this story. One of my eldest sisters took the dusting trick and used it on me. Needless to say, for several years I was happy to do the dusting of the house. :)

This series was given to me by my mother, the daughter of a Hewish immugrant who grew up on the Liwer East Side of New York City at the time these stories took place. It went a long way toward educating me about my family origins, as well as being simply an engaging read.I feel strongly that in today’s twisted sociopolitical climate, books like these are critical for young readers to understand and develop empathy for a culture long set apart during certain periods of history. Before the distortions and lies reach their ears, the knowledge humanity and understanding conveyed by Sidney Taylor’s series is an important antidote to the tropes and bigotry espoused by an alarmingly, rapudly growing segment of the American population.

I read the All Of A Kind Family books as a child and I loved them. I replaced them and then there was a flood and I lost them so now I am replacing them.

Wonderfully sweet and wholesome. My 11 yr old loves this series.

This was a Hanukkah gift to my granddaughters. I read it to my children years ago.

This book is suitable if you are looking for a book about the religious and other customs celebrated by the Jewish family. It should be stated in the description. I bought this book by mistake.