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A Real Southern Cook
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Prashad Cookbook: Indian Vegetarian Cooking
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100 delicious vegetarian Indian recipes from Gordon Ramsay's Best Restaurant runner-up Prashad. The...
A Dot in the Snow
Corrinne Averiss and Fiona Woodcock
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A little polar bear, Miki, wanders away while his mother is diving for fish. He sees a dot in the...
The White Cross
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Praise for the TPB edition: 'Brilliant. Really brilliant! The characterisation was excellent and...
Lila
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Alana (9 KP) rated Reflection in Books
Jun 26, 2019
Title is clever, referring to character growth throughout Mulans journey and a part of the book where she must face the chamber of mirrors in order to complete her challenge and save Shang from moving on before he is ready.
This original concept fits well with character which is not easy to do when using characters who are household names and often remind us of our childhood watching Disney classics but it is a risk that has played off.
There is little to critique but I do however believe that there should have been a chapter written exploring Mulan returning home to her family after the war, seeing if she was correct in the chamber of mirrors about her father and mothers reactions to her running off to war as this could differ greatly from the classic plot, I personally would have loved to see grandmother Fa's reaction to Mulans trip to the underworld or at the very least mushu's reaction- as this would have extended the plot leaving a more well rounded ending.