Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast
A strange imprisonment Beauty has never liked her nickname. She is thin and awkward; it is her two sisters who are the beautiful ones. But what she lacks in looks, she can perhaps make up for in courage. When her father comes home with the tale of an enchanted castle in the forest and the...
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A strange imprisonment Beauty has never liked her nickname. She is thin and awkward; it is her two sisters who are the beautiful ones. But what she lacks in looks, she can perhaps make up for in courage. When her father comes home with the tale of an enchanted castle in the forest and the terrible promise he had to make to the Beast who lives there, Beauty knows she must go to the castle, a prisoner of her own free will. Her father protests that he will not let her go, but she answers, "Cannot a Beast be tamed?" Robin McKinley's beloved telling illuminates the unusual love story of a most unlikely couple: Beauty and the Beast.
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Format: mass market paperback
ISBN:
9780060753108 (0060753102)
ASIN: 60753102
Publish date: July 26th 2005
Publisher: HarperTeen
Pages no: 325
Edition language: English
Series: Folktales (#1)
When I read this book as a teenager, I was completely enchanted. Now, ahem years later, I was equally so.
Absolutely love this retelling, very nice story.
This is one of those books I am almost ashamed to admit I don't love. It's not badly written. It is one of my favorite fairy tales retold. Everyone else seems to love it and talk about it introducing them to fairy tale retellings and fantasy and causing them to find joy in reading for the first ti...
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