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Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast

Robin McKinley

A young woman, well educated and honourable, accepts responsibility for her father's act and leaves her family to enter the enchanted world of castle and Beast. The Beast she finds is not the one she imagined, but can she stay with him?

Book Details

  • Publisher: Greenwillow Books
  • Publish Date: Oct 25th, 1978
  • Pages: 256
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 8.10in - 5.70in - 1.10in - 0.70lb
  • EAN: 9780060241490
  • Recommended age: 08-12
  • Categories: Fantasy - GeneralGirls & WomenFairy Tales & Folklore - Adaptations

About the Author

McKinley, Robin: -

Robin McKinley's other books include the Newbery Award-winning The Hero and the Crown; Newbery Honor Book The Blue Sword; Sunshine; Spindle's End; Rose Daughter; Deerskin; The Outlaws of Sherwood; and the short story collections The Door in the Hedge; A Knot in the Grain and Other Stories; and, with her husband, the author Peter Dickinson, Water: Tales of Elemental Spirits. She lives in England with her husband, three whippets, and over five hundred rosebushes.

Praise for this book

"A captivating novel."-- ALA "Booklist""A splendid story."-- "Publishers Weekly"