One of a kind
The Life of Sydney Taylor
One of a Kind
The Life of Sydney Taylor
by Richard Michelson
Pub Date 13 Feb 2024
Astra Publishing House |Calkins Creek
Biographies & Memoirs| Children’s Nonfiction
Astra Books and Netgalley provided me with a copy of One of a Kind for review:
In spite of having five sisters who dressed alike, Sarah Brenner was always one-of-a-kind. In New York’s impoverished Lower East Side, Sarah enjoyed going to the library, celebrating holidays with family, and taking free dance classes. Yet she was equally aware that many things were unfair in the world, starting with women’s inability to vote, to girls’ lack of equality at school, or their expulsion from Europe because their parents were Jewish. It was always obvious to her that things weren’t fair, whether it was the fact that women couldn’t vote, the way girls were treated at school, or the fact that their parents had to leave Europe because they were Jewish.
Growing up, she became an actress and a dancer, but she never forgot the importance of fighting injustice, whether it was anti-Semitism at work or low wages. She decided to write a unique children’s book when her daughter complained that there weren’t any books about Jewish children like her.
I give One of a Kind five out of five stars!
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