by Vera Southgate · Ladybird · tapa dura · ISBN 9780721406428
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«Beauty and the Beast» is the adaptation of the classic fairy tale by Vera Southgate, published by Ladybird in hardcover (52 pages, in English).
Beauty's father loses his fortune and the family must move to the countryside. Her older sisters ask for jewels when he travels to the city, but Beauty only wishes for a white rose. When he takes it from a castle garden, the Beast captures him and agrees to forgive him only if one of his daughters takes his place; Beauty volunteers.
Number 3 in Ladybird's Well Loved Tales series, with illustrations by Robert Ayton; the collection brings together 24 traditional tales.
Recommended for children aged 3 to 5, both for reading aloud and for early readers starting to read by themselves.
Vera Southgate was a British educationalist who dedicated herself to improving how children were taught to read English from the late 1950s to the mid-1980s, a period when many different methods were practised, including the initial teaching alphabet, phonics, and whole language.
