One of a Kind

For fans of All-of-a-Kind Family, here is the true story of how Sarah Brenner, a poor girl from New York City'sLower East Side, became Sydney Taylor: dancer, actress, and successful children's book author.Sarah Brenner might have come from an all-of-a-kind family (five sisters who all dressed alike), but she wasalways one of a kind. Growing up in a Jewish immigrant family on New York's impoverished Lower East Side,Sarah loved visiting the library, celebrating holidays with her family, and taking free dance classes at the HenryStreet Settlement. But she was always aware of things that weren't fair-whether it was that women couldn'tvote, or how girls were treated in her school, or that her parents had had to leave Europe because they wereJewish. When she grew up, Sarah changed her name to Sydney and became an actress and a dancer, but shenever forgot the importance of fighting unfairness, whether it was anti-Semitism at her job or the low wages ofworkers. And when her daughter complained that it wasn't fair that there were no books about Jewish childrenlike her, Sydney put pen to paper and wrote a one-of-a-kind children's book.From well-known Jewish children's author Richard Michelson, this is the story of how Sarah became Sydneyand how she showed children the joy of seeing their culture reflected on the page.