Beauty

The Newbery award winner and New York Times - bestselling author of Rose Daughter reimagines the classic French fairy tale of Beauty and the Beast. When a wealthy merchant loses all his money after his fleet is drowned in a storm, he uproots his three daughters and moves to a village far away. Then the old merchant hears that one of his ships has made it safe to harbor at last and he journeys to claim it, only to encounter a fierce Beast, who walks like a man and lives in a castle. The merchant’s life is forfeit, says the Beast, for trespass and the theft of a rose - but he will spare the old man’s life if he sends one of his daughters. When Beauty hears this story - for her father had picked the rose to bring to her - her sense of honor demands that she take up the Beast’s offer, for “cannot a Beast be tamed?” This “splendid story” by the Newbery Medal - winning author of The Hero and the Crown has been named an ALA Notable Book and a Phoenix Award Honor Book (Publishers Weekly).