Beauty and the beast
By: [retold] by Olive Jones ; illustrated by Francesca Crespi.
Contributors: Crespi, Francesca, ill.
Publisher: Methuen Children's Books
Published: 1982
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 28
Subjects: Miniature books -- Specimens.; Fairy tales.; Folklore -- France.; Miniature books.
Other titles: Beauty and the beast. English.; Little box of fairy tales.
Description: A young girl learns to love a hideous beast for his kindness, thereby breaking the spell a wicked fairy has cast on him.
Notes: Issued in a case with 3 other books by the author: The elves and the shoemaker, Rumpelstiltskin, and Snow White and the seven dwarfs. Title on case: A little box of fairy tales.