Taylor, Sydney. All-of-a-Kind Family Downtown (1972) Illus. Beth and Joe Krush Although written/published later, this fits into the series as the second volume. It's simple math, really. Although it's not exactly simple to track the ages of all six children. But here they are: Ella, 13; Henny, 11; Sarah, 8; Charlotte,
Sydney Taylor's All-of-a-Kind Family (1951) Random House-Yearling, 1989. (Actually, Delacorte's 1995 cover image shown.) If you'd been at the library on the day that the girls went in the book's opening scene, you could've been introduced to them along with Miss Allen, the pretty new librarian. There's Ella, the oldest,
Edward Eager's Half Magic (1954) Illus. N.M. Bodecker Harcourt Brace & Company, 1985 Countless times, I borrowed the school library's copy of this book but, to be honest, I don't remember which, if any, of its sequels I read. I do know that I borrowed some of them, too, when
Beverly Cleary's Ramona the Pest (1968) Illus. Louis Darling Readers first catch a glimpse of Ramona Quimby when she is very small, in the Henry Huggins series, but her first main appearance is in Beezus and Ramona. I was not, however, a Beezus fan. I was a Ramona fan. I
Alongside a handful of shared/group reading challenges (here's my mid-year update on those), I'd chosen some themes to explore and I'd spotted some gaps in my reading. Short Stories 1. Sarah Selecky's This Cake is for the Party (2010) 2. Lynn Coady’s Play the Monster Blind (2000) 3. Mavis Gallant’s
