Content: G
BUYING ADVISORY: EL - ADVISABLE
AUDIENCE APPEAL: AVERAGE
Beauty’s two sisters are appalled at their new social station when their family fortune is lost. With optimism and selflessness, Beauty decides to take care of her family -- even when it means keeping her father’s promise to send her to the castle of a beast.
This retelling of Beauty and the Beast is a great introduction to graphic novels for young readers because it is a familiar story and there is an explanation of how to read graphic novels before the story starts. Gunderson further assists readers by including a list of words to watch for prior to the story and ending the book with writing prompts, discussion questions, and even a craft idea. While the simplified version of this classic fairy tale leaves out a lot of details, the message stays the same, and I think the ideas to engage with the story at the end are more important for young readers than the details.
Reviewer: Carolina Herdegen
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