Demi, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P $14.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-15-224199-5
ting and illustrating this collection of Chinese nursery rhymes, Demi has turned out a joy-filled labor of love. Her interest in Asia has been apparent in the style of her previous work, and here it's in full blossom. Diminutive black-haired...
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Demi. Shen’s Books, $21 (56p) ISBN 978-1-62014-193-9
Illustrating in a delicate style that strongly evokes her ancient Chinese setting, Demi introduces the life and teachings of Confucius (known as Kongzi in China), blending facts and legends surrounding the educator and philosopher. Mythical stories...
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Demi. World Wisdom/Wisdom Tales, $19.95 (56p) ISBN 978-1-937786-04-5
The beloved saint gets colorful treatment from Demi, who retells his biography at length, beginning at the beginning, when Francis was born in a stable in Assisi in 1182. Francis’s early life gets extended treatment, with the depiction of medieval...
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Demi. Amazon Children's Publishing, $19.99 (64p) ISBN 978-0-7614-6167-8
Demi turns her biographical and artistic skills to Christopher Columbus in this balanced recounting of his life, from a youth who felt "the call of sea" to the man who helped establish a European foothold in the Americas. The author doesn't...
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Demi. Marshall Cavendish, $19.99 (56p) ISBN 978-0-7614-5999-6
Author-illustrator Demi (Rumi: Whirling Dervish) does her usual visually stunning work in this illustrated biography of the storied Joan of Arc, a patron saint of France. The outlines of Joan’s life are known well enough: pious and unsophisticated...
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Demi, Author Henry Holt & Company $17.95 (48p) ISBN 978-0-8050-2810-2
This fast-paced retelling of an ancient Chinese fairy tale revolves around the search for a stolen tapestry. A devoted son sets out to retrieve the work, ``the most heavenly tapestry ever made,'' painstakingly woven by his mother over three years....
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Demi, Author Henry Holt & Company $19.95 (1p) ISBN 978-0-8050-2553-8
An opulent novelty book, this collection of poems about insects will delight Demi fans with its gilded illustrations and ornate designs that virtually burst the confines of the page. As if there were not room enough on a single spread for the span...
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Demi, Author Henry Holt & Company $15.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8050-1580-5
There is room for both the architect and the artist in the Emperor's kingdom for a time, but eventually competitiveness impels the artist to concoct a scheme to eliminate his rival. He writes a letter that he claims is from the Emperor's dead father.
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Demi, Author Dodd Mead $12.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-396-08907-0
In this story of traditional Chinese wisdom, Chen Ping, a poor and content boy, works for a rich and greedy master. He chops wood and takes loving care of all animals. When his axe falls into the river as he's crossing a bridge, he has some firewood
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Demi, Author Scholastic $16.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-590-31339-1
""He who has heaven in his heart is never poor,"" says a farmer's wife in this simple, graceful adaptation of a Chinese folktale. Pang, a rich man, spends all his time counting his money, neglecting his wife and five sons. Meanwhile Li, who is poor,
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Demi, Author Henry Holt & Company $16.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8050-5959-5
Demi (The Dragons Tale) deftly adapts a story that allegedly originated in India in 550 B.C. to a Tibetan setting for this retelling, notable for its spare, repetitive language and versatile artwork. A Tibetan king known for his fair judgment must...
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Demi, Author Dodd Mead $14.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-396-08908-7
In this adaptation of a folktale from India, a young king must find a mythical hallowed horse to aid him in his battle against a diabolical snake monster. In the meantime, a simple potter has befriended a wild foal, which is in reality the hallowed...
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Demi, Author Grosset & Dunlap $10.95 (48p) ISBN 978-0-448-18995-6
A mirror image is supposed to be a look-alike, but to the geese in this concept book, it's an opposite. A circle and a square are not really physical opposites but conceptual ones, which is a difficult idea for the oldest reader in the target age...
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Demi, Author . S&S/McElderry $19.95 (40p) ISBN 978-0-689-84149-1
The highlight of this portrait of Gandhi is Demi's (Buddha) artwork, featuring gold borders and accents, splashes of brilliant color and small-scale images. With their fine balance of simplicity and elegance, the paintings gracefully reflect...
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Demi, Author Grosset & Dunlap $12.95 (48p) ISBN 978-0-448-18980-2
Counting from 1 to 20 is the main point of Demi's work, but there are other spreads on which readers can learn to count to 100 by fives or by twos. The book begins with a purple paisley rhino and quickly gallops past two floral elephants, three...
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Demi, Author Grosset & Dunlap $12.95 (47p) ISBN 978-0-448-18970-3
Dazzling color pictures and striking drawings in mellow gray and white are the attractions in Demi's inventive alphabet-game book. Instructions on how to play precede pages where the upper- and lower-case letters are boxed with a closeup of an...
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Demi, Author Crown Publishers $8.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-375-82642-9
The Year of the Monkey begins January 22, 2004, with colorful festivities. Happy, Happy Chinese New Year! by Demi is a reissue of her 1997 book Happy New Year! Kung-His Fa-Ts'ai! She chronicles New Year celebrations against delicate landscapes of
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Demi, Author Margaret K. McElderry Books $19.95 (40p) ISBN 978-0-689-84680-9
Demi's latest folktale, The Hungry Coat: A Tale from Turkey, touched with gold foil, celebrates that nation's aesthetic with a story revolving around a wise man, Nasrettin Hoca. On his way to a dinner at the home of a rich friend, Nasrettin stops
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Demi, Author Margaret K. McElderry Books $19.95 (42p) ISBN 978-0-689-83068-6
Set in old China, Demi's (The Nightingale) adaptation of the Hans Christian Andersen classic is as opulent as the vain emperor himself might wish for, with lots of gold ink and five foldout panels. The lean text supports the art but does not compete
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Demi, Author Scholastic Press $21.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-590-93998-0
A traditional tale of India, as well as miniatures produced in that country in the 16th and 17th centuries, inspired this visually striking book. Set off by simple red and gold frames, Demi's (Buddha; Buddha Stories, see p. 108) atmospheric,...
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Demi, Author . S&S/McElderry $19.95 (40p) ISBN 978-0-689-86407-0
Consummate biographer for children Demi (Muhammad
; The Dalai Lama
) turns her pen and paints to the world-renowned nun who committed her life to serving the poorest of the poor in God's name. In her clear, concise style, Demi chronicles how...
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Demi, Author . Holt $7.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8050-7811-4
According to PW
, "Demi adopts a formal style for this opulent version of the famous Russian folktale, echoing the fine craft of cloisonne and the intricacies of Faberge in her gilded illustrations." Ages 6-10. (June)
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Demi, Author Margaret K. McElderry Books $19.95 (40p) ISBN 978-0-689-84503-1
In a fable similar to her The Empty Pot, Demi uses an emperor's riddle to demonstrate The Greatest Power. The boy emperor Ping asks the children of the empire to discover the world's greatest power as a test of their abilities. While many choose...
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Demi, Author Henry Holt & Company $7.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8050-0801-2
Whatever a beggar boy paints with his brush comes to life, in a masterful story that glows with Demi's jewel-like art. A Reading Rainbow selection. Ages 5-8. (March)
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Demi, Marshall Cavendish, $19.99 (59p) ISBN 978-0-7614-5700-8
Demi's meticulous, expansive story highlights the achievements of Alexander the Great, who conquered much of the known world (to the Greeks) in only 12 years. One of the most successful military leaders in history, he captured Persia, Egypt,...
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Demi, Author . S&S/McElderry $21.99 (52p) ISBN 978-1-4169-5347-0
Like Demi's The Boy Who Painted Dragons
, this lavishly illustrated story tells of a child who is helped in his/her art by divine beings, but this time the template is overworked. Once again, fold-out pages add drama to the art, the rich colors
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Demi, Author, Tze-Si Huang, Translator, Tze-Si Huang, Translator Henry Holt & Company $15.95 (80p) ISBN 978-0-8050-1955-1
``In the eyes of the cat,'' the haiku explains, one can observe the sea's color ``on a sunny day / in winter.'' Thus young readers are introduced to the delicate complexities of Japanese nature poetry. Compressed and imagistic, the 77 adaptations of
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Demi, Author, Hitz Demi, Author Henry Holt & Company $19.95 (1p) ISBN 978-0-8050-2564-4
Marbleized-paper beasts and other mixed-media renderings leap and dance their way across metallic gold or pastel spreads in this razzle-dazzle celebration of Chinese mythology. Demi's creatures ripple with intricate design and pulsate with color:...
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Demi, Author, Hitz Demi, Author Henry Holt & Company $16.95 (1p) ISBN 978-0-8050-3244-4
Demi adopts a formal style for this opulent version of the famous Russian folktale, echoing the fine craft of cloisonne and the intricacies of Faberge in her gilded illustrations. The surfeit of visual riches helps carve out a niche for the book...
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Demi, Author, Hitz Demi, Author Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers $15 (0p) ISBN 978-0-517-59864-1
The prolific author/artist brings her characteristically luxurious taste to this folktale, a Chinese equivalent of The Fisherman and His Wife. Here, it is a stonecutter who is granted his wishes to be turned into ever more powerful entities--until...
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Demi, Author, Demi, Illustrator Henry Holt & Company $17.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8050-1217-0
Ping is a Chinese boy with an emerald green thumb; he can make anything grow ``as if by magic.'' One day the Emperor announces that he needs a successor, someone who can carry on after he is gone with the ruling of the kingdom and the growing of the
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Demi, Author, Demi, Illustrator . S&S/McElderry $21.99 (52p) ISBN 978-1-4169-2469-2
The titular dragons in this lavishly produced tale of ancient China are a far cry from the genial Puff-the-Magic-Dragon type. As painted by Ping, the young hero, these are fearsome creatures, with bulging eyes, tentacle-like whiskers, sinuous bodies
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Demi, Author, Demi, Illustrator . S&S/McElderry $21.99 (48p) ISBN 978-1-4169-1206-4
D
emi (Jesus
) introduces another thought-provoking new entry to her spiritual leaders series of books. This crisply designed volume is beautiful to look at, filled with Chinese symbolism and the author-illustrator's signature gold accents. A...
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Demi, Author, Demi, Illustrator Henry Holt & Company $7.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-8050-4900-8
A Chinese boy with an green thumb wins the emperor's competition; PW praised the ""extraordinarily delicate Oriental landscapes."" Ages 4-7. (Sept.)
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Demi, Author, Demi, Illustrator . S&S/McElderry $19.95 (40p) ISBN 978-0-689-84681-6
In her typically well-researched picture-book-biography style, Demi (Muhammad) explores the man and the myths (and the red suit and sleighful of toys). She chronicles stories of Nicholas's childhood as an extraordinarily compassionate and...
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Demi, Author, Laleh Bakhtiar, Author, Demi, Illustrator . S&S/McElderry $19.95 (48p) ISBN 978-0-689-85264-0
Demi (Gandhi; Buddha) presents a resonant, splendidly illustrated portrait of the "Messenger of Islam," to whom, according to Muslim belief, the angel Gabriel revealed the sacred words that became the Koran. The well-researched narrative...
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Demi, Author, Demi, Illustrator Henry Holt & Company $19.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8050-3446-2
In this striking volume, Demi (The Empty Pot; The Firebird) introduces each of the Chinese zodiac's 12 animal symbols by retelling the fables associated with them. Her writing is succinct and witty, and the morals less familiar than Aesop's (""The...
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Demi. Shen’s Books (www.shens.com), $21.95 (64p) ISBN 978-1-885008-45-9
Demi’s account of 15th-century Chinese explorer Zheng He is enlivened by images of the dazzling wealth his fleet carried back to China: “Precious ambergris used for medicine, cowrie shells, sapphires, rubies, oriental topaz, and Persian carpets...
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Demi. Holt, $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-8050-9729-0
Demi uses her characteristically delicate, gold-accented style of artwork to tell the story of Florence Nightingale’s youth and adult life. Nightingale has a largely unassertive presence on the page, clothed in flowery fabrics or an inky blue dress...
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Demi. Holt, $17.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-62779-769-6
Acclaimed for her elegantly illustrated picture-book biographies, Demi revisits another of her signature genres—Chinese folktales—in this graceful story of generosity trumping selfishness. Tan Tan, a “very rich boy” with exquisitely embroidered...
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Demi. Holt, $19.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-62779-389-6
In her trademark ornamental art style, Demi illustrates the life of Marie Curie, born in 1867 Poland as Maria Salomea Sklodowska
. Following a stint as a governess, she pursued an unconventional path for women of her time, graduating from the...
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Demi. Wisdom Tales, $17.95 (40p) ISBN 978-1-937786-77-9
Demi tells the luminous story of St. Hildegard of Bingen who, as a child, “saw lights, and inside those lights were pictures of Heaven” and could tell the future. Cloistered due to terrible headaches, Hildegard becomes a nun at 18, and her visions...
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