During the Reign of the Queen of Persia

9 best books like During the Reign of the Queen of Persia (Joan Chase): Orange World and Other Stories, Supper Club, Sing to It: New Stories, Tree of Cranes, A Brazen Curiosity, Lolly Willowes, The Foot Book: Dr. Seuss's Wacky Book of Opposites, A Picture for Harold's Room, We Eat Dinner in the Bathtub

Orange World and Other Stories

Author	Karen Russell
ISBN	1984892215

From the Pulitzer Finalist and universally beloved author of the New York Times best sellers Swamplandia! and Vampires in the Lemon Grove, a stunning new collection of short fiction that showcases Karen Russell's extraordinary, irresistible gifts of language and imagination.

Karen Russell's...

Supper Club

Author	Lara Williams
ISBN	0525539581

A sharply intelligent and intimate debut novel about a secret society of hungry young women who meet after dark and feast to reclaim their appetites--and their physical spaces--that posits the question: if you feed a starving woman, what will she grow into?

Roberta spends her life trying...

Sing to It: New Stories

Author	Amy Hempel
ISBN	1982109114

“All the tawdry details I’m dying for are in these stories, but they’re given out like old sweaters—without shame, without guile. Amy Hempel is the writer who makes me feel most affiliated with other humans; we are all living this way—hiding, alone, obsessed—and that’s ok.” —Miranda...

Tree of Cranes

Author

Allen Say

Tree of Cranes is a great book for helping my kindergarten students step out of their common understandings of Christmas and see the holiday from a new perspective. Set in Japan, we were able to have discussions about elements of traditional Japanese architecture (including tatami mats; futons; narrow,...

A Brazen Curiosity

Author

Lynn Messina

“A feisty heroine hiding behind a mousy facade…”
England 1816 
Twenty-six-year-old Beatrice Hyde-Clare is far too shy to investigate the suspicious death of a fellow guest in the Lake District. A spinster who lives on the sufferance of her relatives, she would certainly not...

Lolly Willowes

Author	Sylvia Townsend Warner
ISBN	0940322161

This is a book about witches. But when I finally put this book down last night, I mostly just thought about my father.

I don’t think it is controversial to say that duty is a bit of an old fashioned word these days. Like honor. It’s one of those words you hear someone say and squirm uncomfortably,...

The Foot Book: Dr. Seuss's Wacky Book of Opposites

Author	Dr. Seuss
ISBN	0679882804

A toe-tapper babies will love--the classic Seussian book about opposites: "Wet foot, dry foot. Low foot, high foot..."  

This Little Book is an adaptation of the original book The Foot Book published by Random House in 1963..

A Picture for Harold's Room

Author	Crockett Johnson
ISBN	0064440850

From the treasured author of Harold and the Purple Crayon, Crockett Johnson, comes an I Can Read adventure for Harold and his magical purple crayon.

Harold needs a picture for his bedroom wall, so he takes his purple crayon and begins to create a whole new world around him. But then he notices...

We Eat Dinner in the Bathtub

Author	Angela Shelf Medearis
ISBN	0590738860

Summary:
Two friends are talking to each other and one invites the other over for dinner. He tells his friend that his family eats dinner in the bathroom. He then explains how they cook in the bedroom, the dog sleeps in the garage, and so. What his family does is very different than what his friend's...