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This book presents a vivid and humorous portrait of life at the turn of the century, as WWI approaches, a single uncle finds love, and a new friendship blooms among latkes and the library.

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Main Author: Taylor, Sydney, 1904-1978
Other Authors: Stevens, Mary
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Lizzie Skurnick Books, 2014.
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Family life > Juvenile fiction.
Families > Juvenile fiction.
Jews > New York (State) > New York > Juvenile fiction.
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Summary:This book presents a vivid and humorous portrait of life at the turn of the century, as WWI approaches, a single uncle finds love, and a new friendship blooms among latkes and the library.
Physical Description:166 pages
ISBN:9781939601155
1939601150
Author Notes:Born in 1904 on New York's Lower East Side, Sydney Taylor was one of the first authors of children's books centered on Jewish characters. She didn't begin writing until she married and had a daughter, to whom she told bedtime stories about growing up with five sisters. She wrote a manuscript and put it in a drawer, and it wasn't until her husband secretly submitted it to Charles A. Follet Award for Writing that Taylor's bedtime stories became the immensely popular All-of-a-Kind Family series.

Taylor died in 1978 at the age of seventy-three. The Sydney Taylor Book Award is given each year by the Jewish Association of Libraries to a book for young people that authentically portrays the Jewish experience.

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