A review by michelleful
A Papa Like Everyone Else by Sydney Taylor

4.0

Children's book from the author of the "All-of-a-Kind Family". This one is also about the Jewish immigrant experience in the early part of the 20th century (post-WWI), but focuses on the pre-immigration part. The mother and two girls are waiting for the father, who is already in the US, to save up enough to bring them over. It explores their life in Czechoslovakia (though they identify as Hungarians) and their emotions as they wait for the fateful letter and have to say goodbye to their friends and family and everything they've ever known.

I was sorry that it stopped once they entered the US. I would have loved to read about how they settled down, learned English, brought over more members of their family, etc. I am looking for another book that covers that aspect of it. "Stitching a Life: An Immigrant Story" looks like a YA take on that aspect of the immigrant experience so I will probably read that soon.