Divine Mirror Press

"Divine Mirror Press' first book is a lovely retelling of the Nativity story. Living in the Biblical stable, Sarah is a pack-rat who witnesses the birth of Jesus but doubts whether she has a suitable gift, or rather, a gift she wants to part with, or even,should she have one, that the humans she sees could bear to see her rodent face at the manger. Sarah treasures a green glass bead above all her other possessions, but when she converses with a little friend of the Magi who leaves her with a golden string to present to the Holy Child, Sarah puts her green bead on it and takes it to the baby. Jesus' delight at the gift and his parents' acceptance of her--rodent face and all--form an imaginative plot which the author, also the talented illustrator, presents in a book which would make a fine Christmas present."