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| Original Title: | Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast |
| ISBN: | 0064404773 (ISBN13: 9780064404778) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Folktales |
| Characters: | Beauty / Honour Huston (Robin McKinley), Grace Huston, Molly Honeybourne, Hope Huston-Woodhouse, Lydia (Robin McKinley), Bessie (Beauty), Mercy Woodhouse, Richard Woodhouse, Ruth (Robin McKinley), Lady Marguerite, Robert Tucker, Gervain Woodhouse, Roderick Huston, Tom Black, Greatheart, Tom Bradley, Melinda Honeybourne, Ferdy (Robin McKinley), Pat Lawrey, Nick Callaway, John Honeybourne, Cider (Robin McKinley), Frewen (Robin McKinley), Orpheus/Phooey, Odysseus (Robin McKinley), Beast (Robin McKinley) |
| Literary Awards: | Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award Nominee (1980) |
Robin McKinley
Paperback | Pages: 256 pages Rating: 4.05 | 72351 Users | 5024 Reviews
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| Title | : | Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast (Folktales) |
| Author | : | Robin McKinley |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 256 pages |
| Published | : | June 30th 1993 by HarperCollins (first published October 25th 1978) |
| Categories | : | Fantasy. Romance. Fairy Tales. Young Adult. Retellings |
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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 and the terrible promise he had to make to the Beast who lives there, Beauty knows she must go to the castle, a prisoner of her own free will. Her father protests that he will not let her go, but she answers, "Cannot a Beast be tamed?"
Robin McKinley's beloved telling illuminates the unusual love story of a most unlikely couple, Beauty and the Beast.
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Ratings: 4.05 From 72351 Users | 5024 ReviewsCritique Out Of Books Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast (Folktales)
Beauty is the youngest of three sisters. Their mother has passed on and now they live with their father. Beauty is an introvert and prefers reading books. She has very low self-esteem, dislikes her body, and feels that she doesnt measure up to her sisters attractiveness. While shes quite clever, she wishes she could also be beautiful and have more to offer like her sisters Hope and Grace who are both beautiful and kind.After their father loses all the family income, they're forced to move to aI'm sure part of my gleeful urge to give this five-star rating stems from the fact that "Beauty and the Beast" has always been my favourite fairy tale. I love seeing it redone in modern settings, redone in post-modern settings, and even retold in a time period akin to that in which it was first penned and recorded for posterity. This novel brings us the story in the first person POV, past tense, but with a current approach to language. I checked the credits and discovered it was first published
I can't believe I haven't reviewed this properly before! This book was so influential in the writing of my fairy tales! It has been so influential my writing in general! This book is the forerunner, and set the standard, for modern YA fairy tale retellings. And since the last time I read it I've seen Disney's animated Beauty and the Beast roughly 9,000 times with my daughter, and I have to say: if they didn't pay McKinley for her ideas, Disney owes her big time!
The title says it all. This book is beautiful on every level: Writing, characters, story, themes. I thought it was an awesome portrait of quiet, gentle love and the joy to be found in simple things.Dudes and ladies alike: Just read it.
This is a quick read - young adult fiction. There were elements of this story (a re-telling of Beauty and the Beast) that had the potential to be really cool, but the author concentrated on the clothes and hair and food instead of the magic. I'm all for detail, but come on! The main character was labeled "plain" from the beginning and her sisters were beautiful. Of course in the end the plain one becomes pretty and the Beast is also pretty and TA DA all is right with the world. Booo. Also, many
For a fairy-tale retelling this book wasn't bad although it can be predictable at times and it does have a lot of teen girl melodrama with the character of Beauty herself, whose self-esteem is a puddle on the floor. :-
REVIEW UPDATE: March 2017Old friend, I didn't realize how much I missed you! I've been wanting to re-read this book for a long time, and the theater release of the new Disney movie seemed to be as good an excuse as any. McKinley immersed me again into the world of an enchanted castle and the affection growing between an ordinary girl, and a terrible but lonely beast.There are so many good themes in this book! While some have argued the book may support Stockholm Syndrome (sympathy developed by a
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