Gastroanomalies: Questionable Culinary Creations from the Golden Age of American Cookery
10 best books like Gastroanomalies: Questionable Culinary Creations from the Golden Age of American Cookery (James Lileks): Lady Cottington's Pressed Fairy Book, The Boys' War: Confederate and Union Soldiers Talk About the Civil War, I, Elizabeth, Wild Things! Acts of Mischief in Children's Literature, In the United States of Africa, The Kingdom by the Sea, The Story of Doctor Dolittle, Jaguars Ripped My Flesh, Circle Dogs, I Have a Dream: The Story of Martin Luther King
Lady Cottington's Pressed Fairy Book
| Author | Terry Jones |
| ISBN | 1857933362 |
Based on the series of turn-of-the-century photos of the supposed “Cottingley Fairies”, Lady Cottington’s Pressed Fairy Book is definitely not a children’s book, but rather a morbid fantasy told through journal entries about a horrid imp of a girl who makes a hobby of crushing fairies in...
| Author | Jim Murphy |
| ISBN | 0395664128 |
I have never read about the Civil War in such a basic and simplistic way before. This is a sad, but true book about the boys who fought in the Civil War. Some were as young as 10 years old! I have a ten year old and I can't imagine him not only witnessing what these boys saw, but being part of it as well. Most of these...
| Author | Rosalind Miles |
| ISBN | 0609809105 |
A spellbinding novel about Elizabeth I from the internationally bestselling author of the Guenevere and Tristan and Isolde trilogies.
Publicly declared a bastard at the age of three, daughter of a disgraced and executed mother, last in the line of succession to the throne of England, Elizabeth...
Wild Things! Acts of Mischief in Children's Literature
| Author | Betsy Bird |
| ISBN | 0763651508 |
Secret lives, scandalous turns, and some very funny surprises — these essays by leading kids’ lit bloggers take us behind the scenes of many much-loved children’s books.
Did Laura Ingalls cross paths with a band of mass murderers? Why was a Garth Williams bunny tale dubbed "integrationist...
In the United States of Africa
| Author | Abdourahman A. Waberi |
| ISBN | 0803222629 |
In a literary reversal as deadly serious as it is wickedly satiric, this novel by the acclaimed French-speaking African writer Abdourahman A. Waberi turns the fortunes of the world upside down. On this reimagined globe a stream of sorry humanity flows from the West, from the slums of America and the...
Oh Paul Theroux, why must you be so grouchy? I mean, you're traveling around England, one of the best countries on earth! Where's the joy? Where's the love? Where's the gratitude?
OK, so I now realize that I had unrealistic expectations for this book. I liked Theroux's memoir of his travels around...
The Story of Doctor Dolittle
| Author | Hugh Lofting |
| ISBN | 0060775971 |
Doctor John Dolittle loves animals. He loves them so much that his home and office overflow with animals of every description. When Polynesia the parrot teaches him the language of the animals, Doctor Dolittle becomes a world-famous doctor, traveling even as far away as Africa to help his friends....
| Author | Tim Cahill |
| ISBN | 0679770798 |
An absolutely outstanding book. This is a collection of pieces the author wrote for Outside and some other magazines during the late 70s and early 80s. The book far exceeds the quality of Pecked to Death by Ducks, which is the only other of his collections I have read.
The first half of the book...
| Author | Kevin Henkes |
| ISBN | 0688154468 |
The circle dogs live in a big, square house with a big, square yard. See the dogs? See the circles? Mama calls them pooches. Papa calls them hounds. "I'm a dog!" says Big Sister. Baby is, too. And even the youngest reader will want to wiggle and bounce and dig through the day with the circle dogs....until...
| Author | Margaret Davidson |
| ISBN | 0590442309 |
Summary:
This book is an inspiring biography of of Dr. Martin Luther King that explains the historical context and meaning of his famous I have a Dream speech and discusses the Civil Rights Movement.
Characteristics that Support the Genre:
This book is considered a biography because...
