A wonderful book. Not as good as the first in the series but sometimes it is hard to see beloved characters grow and change

More All-of-a-Kind Family is a gem. I loved spending time with Papa, Mama, Ella, Henny, Sarah, Charlotte, Gertie, Charlie, and everyone else! They are charming, kind, and caring. I appreciated their experiences and their joys. I liked learning about how people lived in 1915-1916. I had a great time listening to the audiobook.

Wonderful continuation of the story of a Jewish family during the early 20th century. The author wrote these stories later in her life, based on her own upbringing, which has a lot to do with their authenticity. Looking forward to the next book in the series, and to finding out what happens as the children continue to grow up.

Uncle Hyman gets married, Ella has a beau, and the family moves to the Bronx.

These are sweet books with people who help each other and families that enjoy time spent together. My favorite story in this one was Gertie, who claims she can tell time, only to learn that a simple lie can have consequences when the teacher asks her to tell the class what time it is each day. Even though these are mostly upbeat books, there are also real-life scares: one of the children is almost trampled, and Lena becomes ill with infantile paralysis. I like that the author does not hide the fact that there are terrors in the world.

This was a joint read with my 89-year-old mom who also liked it. The chapter about the family washing their clothes with tubs of boiling water, washboards, and elbow grease brought back memories of doing this as a child with her mother 80+ years ago. Thank goodness for electric washing machines!

The success of Sydney Taylor's first novel meant that she had greater freedom in this sequel, so her socialist leanings are less obscured and her interest in representing Jewish communities is no longer compromised by editorial concerns over what that means in terms of their identity as American. So here she includes details of the neighbourhood May Day celebrations, the terrible fear aroused by an epidemic of infantile paralysis, and the slowly-unfolding, unlikely romance between recent immigrant Lena and the family's scruffy, bachelor uncle Hyman. Illustrated by Mary Stevens.

I read this series about a Jewish family on NYC's East Side in the early 1900s when I was a kid, and just loved them. It's an episodic series about the five girls, their toddler brother, their parents and relatives. I just listened to this one as an audiobook, and thought the narrator did a great job of differentiating the voices and bringing the book to life.

A love story; this is the story of how Uncle Hyman, Mama's brother and Lena a recent immigrant meet. The book continues with their courtship and ends with a wedding. A wedding that almost doesn't happen. In the midst of all this Ella who is now 15 meets a boy, Jules at the library, Henny breaks curfew and even little Charlie gets a chapter of his own.

Delightful stories in which mundane events become wonderful adventures because they are seen with a child's fresh eyes. I loved this series when I first encountered it as a preteen. I still love it and still love the genuinely admirable family values portrayed: loyalty, kindness, tolerance, good humor. Note that hatred is absent from the list.

The charming story of the continuing adventures of this growing-up Jewish family. It was interesting to see the family celebrate some of the Jewish holiday's and how the kids interact with one another now that they are a bit older.

A few things I did not as much like, being a Christian girl, was the celebration of Yom Kippur. By this book's description Jews believe that you have to confess your sins on this day, "the day when people try to make up for their sins by fasting and prayer." Sadly, God's Word in the Bible says no person can make up for their own sins in any way, fasting or prayer or otherwise. Jesus Christ already paid the price for our sins, everyone's sins, and all we must do is "believe on the Lord Jesus Christ" to be saved from the penalty of sin. The other matter was a disciplinary problem by the parents. One daughter stays out past "curfew" with a friend, not paying attention to the time, and the father locks her out of the house. Then, when she tries to climb in through the window he mistakenly reaches for her friend instead of the daughter and gives her a spanking. The real part that bothered me was the family all laughed after this and the author shared that the *father* had learned his lesson - with nothing about the daughter learning to obey her parents. :/

These have been clean stories, but I keep finding these little things I'm uncomfortable with for a children's book. I haven't liked this series as much as I was hoping to.

These books were my childhood. <3

Another sweet family story. The children are all a bit older now, but their adventures continue. I enjoyed this book as much as the previous one.

This Jewish family in 1916 continue their happy adventures in New York City. Ella, the oldest, has a boyfriend now. Their uncle gets engaged to a woman the sisters all adore. During the polio epidemic the family escapes to the seaside where they have a lovely time. At the end of the book they pack up to move to a new home. I am enjoying this charming series.