SYNOPSIS:
Beauty is sixteen years old. Like the original fairy tale, she agrees to live at the castle of the Beast in exchange for her father's life. In McKinley's version, Beauty is the youngest of three sisters. They are reduced to a life in a small village in the country after their father's mercantile ships go astray, leaving them penniless. How Beauty makes the transition, how she comes to know and love the Beast and what leads her to agree to marry him, despite his beastly form; to find all these answers, and to read a lovely re-telling of a familiar fairy tale, you will have to read this book.
SYNOPSIS:
20 years after her first book, Beauty, author Robin McKinley revisits the same fairy tale, yet tells a very different version of the same story. Beauty still goes to live with the Beast to save her father's life, but in this version, instead of sharing a love of books and reading, Beauty and her Beast share a love of gardening, especially roses. Readers who enjoyed McKinley's first book will delight in finding similarities and differences in this most recent retelling.
INTERVIEW WITH ROBIN MCKINLEY
AWARDS:
(Beauty): Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award Nominee (1980)
(Rose Daughter): Mythopoeic Fantasy Award Nominee for Children's Literature (1998)
CREDITS:
McKinley, R. (1997). Rose daughter. New York: Greenwillow. ©1997 ISBN13: 9780441005833 Hardcover $16.99
McKinley, R. (1978). Beauty: A retelling of the story of Beauty & the beast(YA). New York: Harper & Row. ©1978 ISBN13: 9780064404778 Paperback $6.99
Newbery winner Robin McKinley discusses her "Beauty" books with interviewer Tim Podell. (2013, February 12). Retrieved November 25, 2017, from https://youtu.be/Oh1zfm05nmo
Robin McKinley. (n.d.). Retrieved November 25, 2017, from http://www.robinmckinley.com/
COVER ART: Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41424.Beauty
COVER ART: WorldCat: http://www.worldcat.org/title/rose-daughter/oclc/873293371?referer=br&ht=edition
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