All of a Kind Family is a sweet story of a family of five young girls living in NY’s Lower East Side. I loved the richness of family, the beautiful Jewish traditions the family observes and the day to day creativity the girls have in keeping themselves busied. The story line gives a refreshing break from overstimulating electronic devices to the simplicity of family life of 100 years ago. The author uses a deep vocabularly to create her story.

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Updated 2020 - Everything I knew about quarantines, I learned from this book. I had forgotten that their quarantine and scarlet fever coincided with Passover, so it was particularly appropriate to re-read this Quarantined Pascha and Passover season.

These books are always worth a re-read.

The sweetest read!! I couldn't get enough of the stories and the five little girls who are so joyful and close to one another. One of the many reasons that I love this book is by reading about the close relationships that the girls have with their librarian and how much they loved their Friday library days! I remembered a lot from when I read when I was younger but loved it as much as if I had read it for the first time

In the, um, 30-plus(!) years since I read this, it hasn't lost any of its luster. This story is precious and delightful. I love reading books for young people, where problems are you lost a library book or it's raining out and you're bored. I read this numerous times growing up and I think I read the whole series, but the first book was far and away my favorite. It also taught me a lot about the Jewish faith, its holidays, customs, and rituals.

Very sweet story. Loved the ending.

What a fabulous book! How many girls like me learned about Judaism from these books? I think it is still a great choice to read aloud or give to girls from 6 to 10. Here is a link to my review:

http://perfectretort.blogspot.com/201...

All-of-a-Kind Family is another book I would have loved when I was younger - such a nice, wholesome story. I probably would have had to rush right out and find all of the All-of-a-Kind books. I still enjoyed the book very much reading it for the first time as an adult, and wouldn't mind reading more of them sometime. I really liked that although the family was poor, they were very happy and their lack of "things" wasn't a huge issue for them like it is in some stories. I also really enjoyed reading about the celebration of several Jewish holidays, with some details (especially surrounding Succos) that I had never known before. And I especially liked the library lady who kept making an appearance!

I am so suprised this book (appears to me ) to be unheard of in the UK. It took some trouble and cost quite a lot finding a copy, but so glad we did.

A beautiful book describing daily life of a close Jewish immigrant family. We loved the adventures of these sisters. Having lived in Israel, the descriptions of Jewish festivals brought back happy memories of time spent with friends. The descriptions of the festivals and their meaning for the family, illustrates how humans seem to benefit from rituals celebrating points throughout the year, and how beneficial they are whether made up or from religious reasons.

We liked the day to day details of games played, food eaten etc. We marvelled at how the fire engine was pulled by horses.

We found it confusing how poverty was assessed. Nobody they knew could afford to own a book, something we all take for granted these days. But they owned a piano and it seems that several of the girls had lessons. We have to run a stall selling vegetables to raise money for music lessons. Perhaps they cost less in comparison a hundred years ago.

We found it fascinating that although written over a century ago there is still much of the story that would be the same if it were written today.

My daughter said it would be in her top 5 books of all time.

Wonderful

I completely enjoyed this book by Cindy Taylor. “All the guy family“ takes us back to the early 1900s and gives us a very good glimpse as to what life was like back then.

In particular this family of five joyfully lives out their commitment to their Jewish faith. So besides being a just a good family-based story it’s also an introduction to Judaism that is very well-balanced garnished with lots of family love.

Enjoy this book and they recommend it to everyone.

I adored this book when I was young, and I still adore it as an adult. Furthermore, my kids loved it, including my 9 year old son, even though it's about a family of turn of the century Jewish little girls! He wants to continue with the series!

this book gave everyone a perfect view of what growing up Jewish a long time ago. really adorable children that grow up in this really adorable world. what's not to love? I highly recommend this book. Thanks for taking the time to read my review.

A great family read.