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,
Edward Eager's Magic by the Lake (1957) Illus. N.M. Bodecker Harcourt Brace & Company, 1999* It seems completely reasonable that magic is everywhere. At least, if you're Jane. "If I could find a magic charm right on Maplewood Avenue, it stands to reason there must be lots of it lying
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
