Variations on Favorite Stories

"Through her great capacity to love, a kind and beautiful maid releases a handsome prince from the spell which has made him an ugly beast."

"Rescued Beasts. Beauty and the Beast (French). The Enchanted Tsarevitch (Russian). The Princess and the Pig (Turkish). A Bunch of Laurel Blooms for a Present (Appalachian). The Small-Tooth Dog (English). The Fairy Serpent (Chinese). Monkey Son-in-Law (Japanese). The Lizard Husband (Indonesian) -- Questing Beauties. Cupid and Psyche (Greco-Roman). The Serpent and the Grape-Grower's Daughter (French). The Singing, Soaring Lark (German). East of the Sun and West of the Moon (Norwegian). Whitebear Whittington (Appalachian). The Three Daughters of King O'Hara (Irish). The Black Bull of Norroway (Scottish). Bull-of-all-the-Land (Jamaican). Prince White Hog (Missouri French). The Enchanted Prince (Spanish American). The Story of Five Heads (African). The Ten Serpents (Israeli). Egle, Queen of Serpents (Lithuanian) -- Homely Women and Homemade Men. Sir Gawain and the Loathly Lady (English). The Laidley Worm of Spindleston Heughs (Scottish). Kemp Owyne (Scottish). Pinto Smalto (Italian). The Dough Prince (West Virginian). Old Man Coyote, the Young Man and Two Otter Sisters (Native American) -- Essays, Activities, and Resources. In the Dark with Disney. Activities. Some Picture Book Versions of Beauty and the Beast."

"Through her great capacity to love, a kind and beautiful maid releases a handsome prince from the spell which has made him an ugly beast."

"In the spirit of the Crafts' previous collaborations, [...] this timeless tale is brought to life with sumptuous paintings and ornamental detail in this lush picture book."

"Through her great capacity to love, a kind and beautiful maid releases a handsome prince from the spell which has made him an ugly beast."

"Through her great capacity to love, a kind and beautiful maid releases a handsome prince from the spell which has made him an ugly beast."

"An Appalachian version of the tale about a girl whose true love breaks the spell and turns her husband from a snow-white bear back into a handsome young man."

"Through her great capacity to love, a kind and beautiful maid releases a handsome prince from the spell which has made him an ugly beast."

"Beauty grows to love the Beast at whose castle she is compelled to stay, and through her love he is released from the curse that had turned him from man to beast."

"A retelling, set in the early 1900's in New York City, of the traditional tale in which a kind and beautiful young woman, through her great capacity to love, releases a handsome young man from the spell which has made him into an ugly beast."

"A poor farmer's youngest daughter agrees to marry a fierce dragon in order to save her father's life."

"When the loathsome Emerson clan steps up their centuries-old feud by targeting Jaya Rao's little sister, nothing will keep Jaya from exacting her revenge. Then Jaya finds out she will be attending the same elite boarding school as Grey Emerson, and she knows what she must do: Make Grey fall in love with her and break his heart. His Lordship Grey Emerson is doomed once he turns eighteen-- thanks to an ancient curse by a Rao matriarch. When Jaya Rao bursts into his life, he can't shake the feeling that she is hiding something. As the stars conspire to keep them apart, Jaya and Grey grapple with questions of love, loyalty, and whether it is possible to write your own happy ending."