num_pages: 256
description: "Like all of the other doors I had met in the castle, this one opened at my approach. The room it revealed was a large, warm, and gracious one. On one wall to my left a first was burning in a fireplace; two armchairs were drawn up before it. One chair was empty. In the other a massive shadow sat. I caught a gleam of dark-green velvet on what might have been a knee in the shadowed armchair."'Good evening, Beauty,' said a great harsh voice."A young woman, well educated and honourable, accepts responsibility for her father's act and leaves her family to enter the enchanted world of castle and Beast. The Beast she finds is not the one she imagined, but can she stay with him?A gifted storyteller embellishes the classic tale, developing a new and very real world of her own in a love story that has all the wonder and magic of the fairy tale.
language: English
title: Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast
titlecomplete: Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast
characters: Gervain Woodhouse, Hope Huston-Woodhouse, Beast (Robin McKinley), Ruth (Robin McKinley), Greatheart, Cider (Robin McKinley), Tom Black, Pat Lawrey, Frewen (Robin McKinley), John Honeybourne, Beauty / Honour Huston (Robin McKinley), Melinda Honeybourne, Nick Callaway, Lady Marguerite, Bessie (Beauty), Richard Woodhouse, Orpheus/Phooey, Odysseus (Robin McKinley), Robert Tucker, Mercy Woodhouse, Molly Honeybourne, Grace Huston, Tom Bradley, Lydia (Robin McKinley), Ferdy (Robin McKinley), Roderick Huston
genres: Fairy Tales, Retellings, Beauty and The Beast, Fantasy, Fairy Tale Retellings, Young Adult Fantasy, Young Adult, Romance, Fiction, Magic
ratings_count: 79001
series: Folktales
awards: awardedAt: 315561600000
name: Vermont Golden Dome Book Award, awardedAt: 883641600000
name: Phoenix Award (Children's Literature Association)
publisher: Greenwillow Books