title: Demi's Reflective Fables
author: DEMI
description: PreSchool-Grade 5 Demi takes the traditions of the Chinese mirror and brings them to an unusual format with great success. These 13 brief fables, which vary widely in theme, including friendship, self-esteem, and vanity, are told with just the proper mix of intriguing and accessible language, and are set in a circle of designs which complement the facing illustration. These main illustrations include whirling orange-yellow butterflies, a regal lavendar phoenix, and a mysterious teal-and-cocoa weasel. The illustrations' circular borders never cramp or confine, but rather enhance the premise of a mirror. Indeed, a mylar mirror is provided on an extended jacket flap so that readers might experiment and actually reflect the pictures; it will no doubt deteriorate with use, but the charm is in the illustrations themselves. They are so varied and graceful that readers will find themselves poring over them, making new discoveries again and again. The fables would make excellent and novel read-alouds, the illustrations will enchant those who cannot read yet, and older readers will be intrigued by the lore of the mirror as well as the morals of the tales. A book with much to reflect upon that is certain to have just as many readers as reflections. Joanna G. Jones, formerly at Hunterdon County Library, Flemington, <br />Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.
zlib_text: Presents in a Bookshop
  Bookshop Romance
  Book Two
  By Elsie James
  
  Copyright © 2020 by Elsie James
  All rights reserved. This book or any portion thereof may not be reproduced or used in any
  manner whatsoever without written permission of the publisher except for the use of brief quotations
  in a book review.
  Portions of this book are works of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people, or real
  places are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places, and events are products of the author's
  imagination, and any resemblances to actual events or places or persons, living or dead, is entirely
  coincidental.
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  Table of Contents
  Chapter One: Demi
  Chapter Two: Preston
  Chapter Three: Demi
  Chapter Four: Preston
  Chapter Five: Demi
  Epilogue: Demi Two Years Later
  THANK YOU
  
  Chapter One: Demi
  “Look! Gabe, it’s another one,” I say holding up the tiny brown wrapped package with the
  delicate gold bow to show my coworker. 
  “Where was it?”
  “It was just sitting on the 