Books with author Madame (Jeanne-Marie) Leprince de Beaumont

A beautiful daughter dreams of meeting a handsome prince, but in order to save her father’s life, she leaves home to live with a terrible, frightening beast. Though her patron is hideous, his disarming generosity slowly leads to a surprising connection. Generations of children have been fascinated by the story of the girl named Beauty, who grows to love a fearsome beast by learning to see and cherish his kindness, generosity, and intelligence.

Beauty's father gets lost in a storm. He sees a castle and spends the night there. But it is the castle of a Beast! When he picks a rose for his daughter, the Beast makes Beauty's father promise to send his daughter to the castle. What does the Beast want with this girl? And when will he let Beauty go home to her family?"". With Young Learners Classic Readers, Young English language learners will enjoy developing their vocabulary and reading fluency with these easy-to-read adaptations of well-known tales for children. Each reader includes the following features: Features: A short introduction about the author and/or story A picture gallery of important characters before the story A story including full-color illustrations and highlighted dialog for easy recognition of spoken language A short playlet for classroom performance A picture dictionary of less familiar words for beginning readers An audio recordings of the story, playlet, and word list A companion workbook for each title

A widower merchant lives in a mansion with his twelve children (six sons and six daughters). All his daughters are very beautiful, but the youngest, was named “little beauty” for she was the most gorgeous. She continued to be named “Beauty” till she was a young adult. She was the most lovely, as well as kind, well-read, and pure of heart; while the elder sisters, in contrast, are cruel, selfish, vain, and spoiled. The merchant eventually loses all of his wealth in a tempest at sea, which sinks most of his merchant fleet.