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Beauty & the beast, Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont ; as retold by Mahlon F. Craft ; and illustrated by Kinuko Y. Craft

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Beauty & the beast, Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont ; as retold by Mahlon F. Craft ; and illustrated by Kinuko Y. Craft

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eng

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non fiction

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Beauty & the beast

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Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont ; as retold by Mahlon F. Craft ; and illustrated by Kinuko Y. Craft

Summary

Award-winning team Mahlon and Kinuko Craft bring us a gorgeous and vivid retelling of the classic story of Beauty and the Beast in this stunningly illustrated picture book. The tale is as old as time: A man steals a rose from the garden of a beast. His beautiful daughter sacrifices herself to a life in the beast's castle to protect her father. The beast and the girl fall in love and live happily ever after...This beloved tale is captured with lyrical prose and lavish illustration. In the spirit of the Crafts' previous collaborations, their acclaimed fairy-tale retellings of Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty, this timeless tale is brought to life with sumptuous paintings and ornamental detail in this lush picture book to be cherished at story time again and again

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Beauty and the beast

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