This is a wonderful picture book retelling the classic fairytale. The simple and engaging text is accompanied by colourful illustrations by Victor Tavares. It is perfect for sharing with young children. There's a fairy hiding in the Beast's garden, which children might not spot on the first reading, but there's lots of fun to be had looking for her when re-reading the story.

 

This book is part of a book series called Picture Books .

There are 24 pages in this book. This is a picture book. A picture book uses pictures and text to tell the story. The number of words varies from zero ('wordless') to around 1k over 32 pages. Picture books are typically aimed at young readers (age 3-6) but can also be aimed at older children (7+). This book was published 2012 by Usborne Publishing Ltd .

Louie Stowell (Author) Louie Stowell started her career writing carefully-researched books about space, Ancient Egypt, politics and science but eventually lapsed into just making stuff up. She likes writing about dragons, wizards, vampires, fairies, monsters and parallel worlds. She lives in London with her wife Karen, her dog Buffy and a creepy puppet that is probably cursed.