The Rose and The Beast
Subtitle: Fairy Tales Retold
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: August 7, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780064407458
Subjects: Short stories; Juvenile Fiction; Fairy Tales & Folklore - Humorous Retelling; Children's 12-Up - Fiction - Fantasy; Children: Young Adult (Gr. 7-9); Love & Romance; Girls & Women; Juvenile Fiction / Fairy Tales & Folklore / Collections by a Single Author; Fairy Tales & Folklore - Adaptations; Fairy tales
First sentence: When she was born her mother was so young, still a girl herself, didn't know what to do with her.