Author: Retold by Catherine Samuel
Illustrator: Walter Velez
Genre: Traditional Literature
Awards: None
Grade Level: PK-5
Beauty and her family had to move to a smaller house because they lost everything in a storm. When her father heard he might have a ship left, he decided to head out to retrieve it and bring it back home. On his way back, he faced a snowstorm that caused him to stay at a castle he saw nearby. Before he left, he remembered Beauty had asked for a rose and decided to pick the rose from a bush in the castle. A beast came out who was the owner of the castle and frightened Beauty's dad. When he explained how he picked the rose for his daughter, the beast demanded to have Beauty at his castle Months passed by and they both feel in love. When Beauty did not return from seeing her family in time, the beast started to die in grief. A dream caused Beauty to return to him and broke the spell of the ugly appearance when she kissed the beast as he laid on the floor dying.
I would use this book in the classroom as a way to broaden my student's imaginations. This book would help teach them what a fairy tale is and how to use their creative mind to picture the magical events that happen within the story. I would personally use this book in a second to fifth-grade classroom so that they fully grasp what events are going on in the story without feeling lost. A unit to use this book would be for sorting or sequencing events in a story. This story can also help them understand the different components of a story such as characters, plot, setting, etc.
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