All-of-a-Kind Family by Sydney Taylor

   



    The family were mostly all girls except for the dad. The dad is a boy. At some point one night two girls of the family were being noisy at night in their beds. The father's friends, one was called Pickle Nose and the other was Charlie. The family lived in the city. The family worshipped God. Holidays! Well there were lots of holidays. One time they went to lots of people's houses and they gave out candy and the people brought them money. On one of the holidays they built a tiny house.
    Anyway, a job of dusting the five kids and one of the kids had that dusting job everyday. So they were getting a little whiney about it so she did a job, a fun job. She hided buttons and then when it was their turn to clean they had to find all the buttons while they worked. And at the end there was a BOY baby! The end.


Rachel's Note: This book was such a treasure! And I randomly picked it off the library shelf. It is set in 1912 in New York and they are a devout Jewish family. There were detailed descriptions of how the family celebrated Passover, Purim, and Succos.

Rachel Field's Hitty abridged by Rosemary Wells





I liked the whole book and especially when they made a dress for her. It was so pretty. I loved it.

 



Hitty is a doll. For the first chapter Hitty was in a house and the father for Christmas he had a little girl and Hitty was made from mountain ash. Oh, and a girl went in a wheelchair and she loved Hitty, but the teacher, when the wheelchair and the girl that was in the wheelchair went to the library, sneaked into the room and stole Hitty and sold her to a shop. And a girl said to the boy shop guy the girl didn't have enough money to buy Hitty so they made a deal. And when they made the deal the girl went away. The End.

Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder

 

I liked when Laura went in the seat because she slapped her big sister in the face. And I liked all of the other ones, but I liked that one best of all. Oh, and when the machine came I liked that one best of all, too. The horses went around and around and around and it went faster and faster and faster so the men had to work faster and faster and faster. The men had to put in the straw and it chopped into pieces and the mom kept braiding and braiding and braiding and she made hats for all the family.

 

 

Laura and Mary had to be quiet when they are at the table and eating. On Sundays they had to sit still. They had to be seen and not heard. And we tried the seen and not heard. It didn't work! My sisters and my brother didn't want to do it. And I'm going to do it next Sunday, too.

Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren

Pippi is funny. She has two friends. One is a boy and one is a girl. Tommy and Annika is their names. We have two books. One we can keep forever and one we cannot keep forever. Pippi is very strong. And once she even went to the circus and she picked up the big strong guy and she was so strong she could pick up his whole body. She has a monkey, just one monkey and one horse and she could carry her horse in her bare hands. There is a hole in a tree Pippi Longstocking has and Tommy and Annika like to play at Pippi's house. And Villa Villakula, that's Pippi Longstocking's house, very creepy because she has an attic and there's lots of ghosts. She said she has all the ghosts in the whole wide world. Pippi Longstocking fell down a cliff once. She forgot to flap her wings. And she has an umbrella that has circle holes in it.