![]() ![]() ![]() The oldest sister, Ella, gets her own book in Ella of All-of-a-Kind Family. From a Purim play, to dancing in the streets to the organ grinder’s tunes, to the bliss of blintz-eating, to the yearly building of the sukkah, this is a family who gets pleasure out of every day. But readers looking for the lightness of the other titles will not be disappointed. The gritty realities of life on the Lower East Side - poverty, illness, the hardships faced by newly arrived immigrants - are front and center in this book, in the characters of Guido, a young boy with no father and a very sick mother, and Miss Carey, a nurse at the settlement house. According to the fascinating introduction to this book (written by June Cummins, who is at work on a Sydney Taylor biography), the book was delayed because it tackles difficult issues, which were not necessarily appealing to the publishers. Interestingly, the Downtown story, though the fourth book published, is actually the second set of adventures, chronologically speaking. Here are the last two books of the All-of-a- Kind Family series. ![]()
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