Rereading Our Childhood
Revisiting the children's books that made us who we are today
Rereading Our Childhood
Rereading All-of-a-Kind Family by Sydney Taylor
On this episode, we discuss All-of-a-Kind Family, Sydney Taylor's 1951 classic about five sisters growing up on New York's Lower East Side. Over the course of a year, the girls experience joys (like celebrating Jewish holidays and the Fourth of July) and sorrows (like getting scarlet fever and, even worse, losing a library book), and spend a lot of time thinking about how to spend their allowance (one penny).
Mentioned on this episode:
Other books in the series:
Also mentioned:
Peter and Polly in Winter by Rose Lucia (1914), Sarah's lost library book.
From Sarah to Sydney by June Cummins, a biography of Sydney Taylor)
Jennifer Weiner's New York Times review of From Sarah to Sydney
One of a Kind: The Life of Sydney Taylor, a children's picture book biography by by Richard Michelson (read Deborah's interview with Michelson here)
Recommended for fans of All-of-a-Kind Family:
Deborah: Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Mary Grace: The Saturdays by Elizabeth Enright, Meet Me in St. Louis by Sally Benson, Seven-Day Magic by Edward Eager
Other Rereading Our Childhood episodes mentioned:
Rereading The Saturdays by Elizabeth Enright
Rereading Little Town on the Prairie, with Judith Kalb
Rereading Half Magic by Edward Eager
You can find Deborah at deborahkalb.com and Mary Grace’s adventures in the 1920s on her blog, My Life 100 Years Ago.
This episode was edited by Adam Linder of Bespoken Podcasting.
Podcast website at rereadingourchildhood.com
