Sydney Taylor's Ella of All-of-a-Kind Family (1978) Illus. Meryl Rosner This (and the third) volumes of Sydney Taylor's series are stories that I've come to for the first time as an adult reader. Which was fine with the third volume: I think I enjoyed it as much as I would
Sydney Taylor's All-of-a-Kind Family Uptown (1958). Illus. Mary Stevens NY: Dell Publishing, 1968. Even though it's the fourth, rather than the first, this is the volume of Sydney Taylor's series that I re-read most often. (Actually, I never read either the third or the fifth/final volumes until now; I didn't
Sydney Taylor's More All-of-a-Kind Family (1954) Dell Publishing, 1967 The third volume in Sydney Taylor's All-of-a-Kind Family series is everything that is promised in the title: More. More years for the children, who now range in age as follows: Ella, 15; Henriette (Henny), 13; Sarah, 11; Charlotte, 9; Gertie, 7; and Charlie,
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,
