Beauty and the beast / Beauty and the beast (Motion picture : 1991)

Retells the story of Belle, a French village girl who befriends a hideous beast and helps to put love in his heart.

A simplified retelling of Disney's "Beauty and the Beast" for beginning readers. Book-loving Belle must rescue her father from a grim castle where he is being held by a beast, as well as fight off the advances of the boorish Gaston. She takes her father's place as captive in the enchanted castle, where, with the help of his enchanted servants, she comes to see a softer side of the beast.

A simplified retelling of Disney's "Beauty and the Beast" for beginning readers. Book-loving Belle must rescue her father from a grim castle where he is being held by a beast, as well as fight off the advances of the boorish Gaston. She takes her father's place as captive in the enchanted castle, where, with the help of his enchanted servants, she comes to see a softer side of the beast.

"Belle learns not to judge a book by its cover when she finds herself in an enchanted castle--and meets the Beast!"--Back cover.

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

A young girl named Belle offers herself as prisoner to an ugly beast in order to save her father, and comes to see the inner beauty of her captor.