Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast - Couverture rigide

McKinley, Robin

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0060241497 ISBN 13 : 9780060241490

Editeur : Greenwillow Books, 1978

Synopsis

Beauty: a RE-Telling of the Story of "Beauty and the Beast" Kind Beauty grows to love the Beast at whose castle she is compelled to stay and through her love releases him from the spell which had turned him from a handsome prince into an ugly beast.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

From Newbery Medal–winning author Robin McKinley, this beloved story illuminates an unlikely love story—Beauty and the Beast.

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 appearance, she can perhaps make up for in courage.

When her father comes home with a 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 travel to the castle, a prisoner of her own free will. Her father insists that he will not let her go, but she responds, “Cannot a Beast be tamed?”

Newbery Medalist Robin McKinley’s beloved and acclaimed novel has been delighting readers for more than forty years. ALA Booklist called Beauty “A captivating novel.”

“A reader feels as though it’s all unfolding for the very first time.”—The Guardian

An ALA Notable Book for Children

A Best Book for Young Adults

Quatrième de couverture :

A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast

Robin McKinley

"Cannot a Beast be tamed?"

Beauty, believing herself plain and awkward, loves roses. But when her father goes travelling and plucks just one magnificent, crimson rosebud from the garden of a magical castle, a fearsome Beast demands revenge. Either Beauty's father must forfeit his life - or his daughter must promise to live with the Beast for ever.

A captivating retelling of the story of Beauty and the Beast from a Newbery Medal winning author.

"Robin McKinley has treated the tale with respect and care, and she tells it straight... Anyone who appreciates prose that's poetic without being cloying will relish the language in which the story is written." Guardian

"Marries realism and fantasy with satisfying imagination, elegance of prose and thoughtful characterisation." Sunday Times

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Greenwillow Books
• Date d'édition: 1978
• ISBN 10: 0060241497
• ISBN 13: 9780060241490
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 256