Beauty and the Beast

Just like the other reviews I also think the book is just amazing. Everything in it is beautifully done. Lovely

Great illustrations. Thats all I bought it for.

Such a beautiful book, worth every penny!

A very beautiful book with luscious illustrations.

Perfect book!

Los libros de Kinuko Craft siempre me siguen sorprendiendo, están llenos de magia y belleza, si lo compras para tus niños excelente, le estás proporcionando mucha inspiración y amor al arte, solo asegúrate que lo traten bien en la medida de lo posible porque en verdad son artículos de colección en toda palabra.

Exquisite quality art work. Absolutely beautiful and my pupils of all ages loved the pictures. Not just a story book, but a work of art. More like a portfolio of art pieces set to the story. We will treasure this book very carefully so that we can pass it down through the family generations.

I love Beauty and the Beast. It’s one of my favorite fairytales. This is a wonderful telling of the story that’s loosely based off of Marie Le Prince Beaumont who abridged the story from the original story and novel by Madame de Villeneuve (which I was lucky enough to get to read.) In my opinion I think Beaumont’s abridged version of the story is a little bit better than the original novel. In the novel there’s more of a backstory to Beauty and the prince who was transformed into a beast. I didn’t find a problem with it though. It was nice to read something a bit more fuller of the tale of Beauty and the Beast than the iconic short tale that everyone knows about. I guess I just prefer the abridged version because I’ve heard it a lot growing up or have watched a lot of adaptations of it told with the Marie Beaumont’s version in mind.The book is nice to give to a child as a way for them to be introduced to the story of Beauty and the Beast until there old enough to read the Marie Beaumont’s story with more words. They can probably read the novel when their maybe twelve or thirteen or older than that.So yes overall this book was sweet. I just gave it four stars because I didn’t like how Kinuko Craft wasn’t consistent with the Beast’s look. On the front cover he looks great, perfectly decently monstrous looking. I was very expectant of continually seeing him with that appearance until the very end but on the page where Beauty is wearing a white dress with seashells and beads in her hair sitting with the Beast with her hand in his paw he looks completely different. It’s like he’s some kind of wolf-Beast with spots and light colored patches of fur. I was so confused at first and was wondering if I was seeing this the same Beast from the cover but no it wasn’t. Only the page where Beauty is begging the Beast to visit her father does it show the same illustration of him on the cover. And after that on the page that he’s on does he become almost a mix of the cover beast and the beast that I mentioned sitting and talking with Beauty. I don’t mean to make this a big deal or a nit pick it’s just something I didn’t like because I’ve never seen anyone think to change up the Beasts appearance where he looks different almost every day. People are usually consistent when their telling the story or making a movie. The only change you really see is when he changes into a human prince at the end. I can understand though if she changed his appearance to test Beauty in some way to see how bothered she can remain by his monstrous looks instead of focusing on his character. After re-reading the book I’ve learned to like all the different looks of the Beasts throughout the story.Edit: I change my mind I’ll just give five stars. It seems silly to only give it four for that one thing I didn’t like. Kinuko’s art is too beautiful for any less stars.

I am an artist and find Kinuko Y. Crafts illustrations very beautiful and inspiring !Also the story is told in a nice way - all together a wonderful picture-book for oneself or as a present !