Book Blurbs: Beauty

In this wonderful retelling of the classic fairytale, Beauty and the Beast, Beauty is a young girl who feels awkward around her beautiful sisters.  Her family's sudden loss of their wealth forces them to move to the country and start a new life.  Beauty is both intrigued by and a little fearful of the local lore which calls the forest beside her new house enchanted, with a terrible beast living inside.  It is on the stormy day which brings her father home from a business trip clutching a single rose, that Beauty's adventure really begins.




About the Author


Robin McKinley is an American writer who has won many awards in the US, including the Newbery Medal for The Hero and the Crown, a Newbery Honor for The Blue Sword, and the Mythopoeic Award for Adult Literature for Sunshine.
She lives in Hampshire, England with her husband, author Peter Dickinson, two hellhounds nicknamed Chaos and Darkness, an 1897 Steinway upright named Rhodanthe, and increasing numbers of rose bushes wedged into three [sic] tiny gardens. The view out her office window is her change-ringing bell tower and in the next village over is a paragon among horses whom Robin is so fortunate as to have permission to ride. Check out her blog at robinmckinleysblog.com.

                             ~Take from robinmckinley.com