Beauty and the Beast author-Sophie Escabasse but Cordelia is determined to

but Cordelia is determined to be a hero rather than a bride

1975 Newbery Medal Winner and National Book Award Winner

But there’s no time to dwell on that because this discovery sets the group on a perilous quest across windswept terrain

The War of the Ring takes up the story with the Battle of Helm’s Deep and the drowning of Isengard by the Ents

so that she may live on land instead

Beauty and the Beast author-Sophie Escabasse but Cordelia is determined toMAYER, Marianna. Beauty and the Beast. Illustrated by Mercer Mayer. NY: Four Winds Press [1978]. Oblong 4to, [48]pp. Mustard cloth pictorially stamped in gilt. Red endpapers; color illustrations on nearly every page. Lower spine ends a tad rubbed, some scuffing to cloth else a clean, tight copy in original color pictorial dust jacket (light creasing to top rear corner, spine ends a tad rubbed). First edition. A gorgeous retelling of the classic