In 1696, he wrote The Sleeping Beauty, his version of a Scandinavian tale of the 14th century. Sixty years later, Madamne Marie de Beaumont, a Frenchwoman, produced her story of a princess, called Beauty and the Beast. This snowy Christmas Eve in 1862 would be a sad one. Their father a minister in the Union Army, was away. The March family in nineteenth century New England, USA during the Civil War.
Pictures come alive with the artist's choice of watercolors, markers, crayons, etc.