One Of A Kind: The Life Of Sydney Taylor,New

For fans of AllofaKind Family, here is the true story of how Sarah Brenner, a poor girl from New York Citys Lower East Side, became Sydney Taylor: dancer, actress, and successful childrens book author.Sarah Brenner might have come from an allofakind family (five sisters who all dressed alike), but she was always one of a kind. Growing up in a Jewish immigrant family on New Yorks impoverished Lower East Side, Sarah loved visiting the library, celebrating holidays with her family, and taking free dance classes at the Henry Street Settlement. But she was always aware of things that werent fairwhether it was that women couldnt vote, or how girls were treated in her school, or that her parents had had to leave Europe because they were Jewish. When she grew up, Sarah changed her name to Sydney and became an actress and a dancer, but she never forgot the importance of fighting unfairness, whether it was antiSemitism at her job or the low wages of workers. And when her daughter complained that it wasnt fair that there were no books about Jewish children like her, Sydney put pen to paper and wrote a oneofakind childrens book.From wellknown Jewish childrens author Richard Michelson, this is the story of how Sarah became Sydney and how she showed children the joy of seeing their culture reflected on the page.