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Beauty and the Beast
Beauty and the Beast retold by Jan Carr illustrated by Katy Bratun
- GenresPicture BooksFiction
32 pages, Paperback
First published October 1, 1993
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May 6, 2024
In terms of story adaptation, it's a boring regurgitation of the Madame de Beaumont version, with absolutely nothing to make it stand out. Not even a tiny little splash of creativity added. Which makes this merely a summed up repetition of an already summed-up version.
The art is the nice part here, but it's not awe-inspiring either but merely pretty and mostly serviceable in its prettiness. At least Beast does look properly beastly and ferocious, but Beauty suffers from the common sin of picture book adaptations of B&B: she's bland and generic.
I'm disappointed in this picture book, I had hunted it down for long for my large B&B collection as I had heard great things about the illustrator, Katy Bratun, from her work for other picture books, and whilst I can say she wasn't quite up to expectations, what really disappointed me most was that I can't believe the adaptor of the text somehow made the tale more boring.
The art is the nice part here, but it's not awe-inspiring either but merely pretty and mostly serviceable in its prettiness. At least Beast does look properly beastly and ferocious, but Beauty suffers from the common sin of picture book adaptations of B&B: she's bland and generic.
I'm disappointed in this picture book, I had hunted it down for long for my large B&B collection as I had heard great things about the illustrator, Katy Bratun, from her work for other picture books, and whilst I can say she wasn't quite up to expectations, what really disappointed me most was that I can't believe the adaptor of the text somehow made the tale more boring.
February 29, 2020
Different retelling than the Disney version. Beautiful illustrations. Would be good to use in a unit comparing different retelling of fairy tales.
June 9, 2012
Beauty and the Beast can allow children to understand the importance of family, Beauty was so devoted to her family that she went to love with beast because her father was in danger if she did not. This book helps children understand the importance of family at an early age, this book can also educate children about not judging a book by its cover, Beauty could not imagine marrying Beast because he was a handsome Prince but when she stop judging Beast and let his good nature shine through he turned out to be everything she wanted and more and these values need to be taught to children at an early age.
September 14, 2013
this book was just like reading a romance novel, sweet & caring book.
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