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Rylant, Cynthia, Reteller

Beauty and the Beast

40 pp. | Disney/Hyperion | January, 2017 | Trade ISBN 978-1-4231-1981-4 $16.99
(4) K-3 Illustrated by Meg Park. There's little remarkable about Rylant's retelling of the old tale, except that she occasionally resorts to archaic sentence structure to lend a folkloric flavor ("There erupted then such a sound as to nearly stop the man's heart beating..."). Park's illustrations have some warmth but resemble cels from an animated film (though not the famous Disney production.) More beautiful editions of the story are available.
Reviewer: Miriam Lang Budin

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