Henson Company Developing Drama Series ‘All-Of-A-Kind Family’!
Deadline is reporting that the Jim Henson Company is developing All-of-a-Kind Family , a live-action one-hour drama series based on the collection of books by Sydney Taylor, about a hardworking Jewish family in Manhattan’s bustling Lower East Side in 1911. Jordan Lewis Jaffe is attached to develop the project and will also serve as showrunner. Published in 1951, All-of-a-Kind Family provided Jewish American children a way to see themselves and their experiences reflected in an authentic way. It follows five sisters—Ella, Henny, Sarah, Charlotte, and Gertrude— throughout a year of their childhood. Taylor drew on her own family’s experiences which also inspired four additional books in the series which include More All-of-a-Kind Family, All-of-a-Kind Family Downtown, All-of-a-Kind Family Uptown, and Ella of All-of-a-Kind Family. “My grandfather and his family immigrated from Hungary to New York City in 1922, during the same era as the All-of-a-Kind Family books. As a young Je...