Beauty and the Beast
Mary Pope Osborne. Scholastic, $3.95 (0pp) ISBN 978-0-590-40166-1
A luminous retelling of the classic tale. Ages 7-12. (April)
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Reviewed on: 12/02/1991
Genre: Children's
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