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Beauty

A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast

By Robin McKinley

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| Paperback | 9780060753108

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Book Description

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 aContinue

Critics

Fresh telling of a tale as old as time

Beauty by Robin McKinley 259pp, David Fickling, £10.99 The beauty begins when you take this book in your hands and look at it for the first time. The dust-jacket (opaque, translucent paper with tendrils of shining scarlet curling all over the back an ... (read full critics)

guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

1 Review

I like this version of the tale....

Even though the events in this book are fictional, it has a more realistic feel than the version we all commonly know. I would definitely recommend this book to anyone with an interest in magical romances.

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