Fans of Laura Ingalls Wilder'sLittle Housebooks will enjoy a citified version as Sydney Taylor gives a charming glimpse at a time when daily life was very different, but family and faith were surprisingly the same.Ella, Henny, Sarah, Charlotte, and Gertie are back!Life is never dull for the loving, Jewish, all-of-a-kind family on New York's Lower East Side in the early 1900s.Stand-alone chapters make this a perfect read-aloud,as the story followsthe five sisters who are very busy, especially now that baby Charlie is growing so quickly. Ella gets a big role in the Purim play, Henny gets into trouble at school and runs away, Sarah gets her ears pierced, Charlotte has a scary kitchen accident, and Gertie finally is old enough to have a book of her own.And the girls befriend a young boy named Guido whose mother is very ill.Generations of readers have loved following the exploits of these very recognizable girls. This title, although written later,picksup right where the first,All-of-a-Kind Family, ended.