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ISBN13: 9780441005833
ISBN10: 0441005837
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Twenty years ago, Robin McKinley dazzled readers with the power of her novel Beauty. Now this extraordinarily gifted novelist returns to the story of Beauty and the Beast with a fresh perspective, ingenuity, and mature insight.

With Rose Daughter, she presents her finest and most deeply felt work — a compelling, richly imagined, and haunting exploration of the transformative power of love.

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"McKinley is at home in a world where magic is a mainstay and, with her passion for roses, she's grafted a fully dimensional espalier that is a tangled, thorny web of love, loyalty, and storytelling sorcery." School Library Journal

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"Readers will be enchanted, in the best sense of the word." Booklist

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"[B]y turns rushes headlong and slows to a stately pace, is full of asides and surprises, and is suffused with obsession for the rose and thorn as flora, metaphor, and symbol." Kirkus Reviews

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"The age-old Beauty and the Beast tale is refreshingly revisited in this beautiful book...." Children's Literature

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"Engaging and well-written, Rose Daughter resonates with an important message: women have choices and should no longer emulate passive damsels in distress." The ALAN Review

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"McKinley has captured the timelessness of the traditional tale and breathed into it passion and new life appropriate to the story's own 'universal themes' of love and regeneration." VOYA

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McKinley (Beauty) returns to the story of Beauty and the Beast with a fresh, perspective, ingenuity, and mature insight, and presents her finest and most deeply felt work — a compelling, richly imagined, and haunting exploration of the transformative power of love.

Synopsis:

Twenty years ago, Robin McKinley dazzled readers with the power of her novel Beauty. Now this extraordinarily gifted novelist returns to the story of Beauty and the Beast with a fresh perspective, ingenuity, and mature insight.

With Rose Daughter, she presents her finest and most deeply felt work--a compelling, richly imagined, and haunting exploration of the transformative power of love.

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About the Author

Robin McKinley has won various awards and citations for her writing, including the Newbery Medal for The Hero and the Crown and a Newbery Honor for The Blue Sword. Her other books include Sunshine; the New York Times bestseller Spindle's End; two novel-length retellings of the fairy tale Beauty and the Beast, Beauty and Rose Daughter; and a retelling of the Robin Hood legend, The Outlaws of Sherwood. She lives with her husband, the English writer Peter Dickinson.
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crowyhead, August 18, 2006 (view all comments by crowyhead)
I loved this! It's hard to write about all the reasons I loved this without giving things away. McKinley does such a wonderful job of making the story of Beauty and the Beast seem fresh, and she fleshes out the basic elements so eloquently. Definitely one of my all-time favorite fairy tale retellings.
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Product Details

ISBN:
9780441005833
Author:
McKinley, Robin
Publisher:
Ace Books
Location:
New York :
Subject:
Fiction
Subject:
Children's 12-Up - Fiction - General
Subject:
Fairy Tales & Folklore - Single Title
Subject:
Folklore
Subject:
Romance
Subject:
Fantasy - General
Subject:
Fairy tales
Subject:
Fantasy fiction
Subject:
Folklore -- France.
Subject:
General-General
Subject:
Children s-General
Copyright:
c199
Edition Description:
B-Mass Market
Publication Date:
19981231
Binding:
MASS MARKET
Grade Level:
from 12
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Y
Pages:
304
Dimensions:
6.80x4.16x.82 in. .32 lbs.
Age Level:
10-14
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Product details 304 pages Ace Books - English 9780441005833 Reviews:
"Review" by , "McKinley is at home in a world where magic is a mainstay and, with her passion for roses, she's grafted a fully dimensional espalier that is a tangled, thorny web of love, loyalty, and storytelling sorcery."
"Review" by , "Readers will be enchanted, in the best sense of the word."
"Review" by , "[B]y turns rushes headlong and slows to a stately pace, is full of asides and surprises, and is suffused with obsession for the rose and thorn as flora, metaphor, and symbol."
"Review" by , "The age-old Beauty and the Beast tale is refreshingly revisited in this beautiful book...."
"Review" by , "Engaging and well-written, Rose Daughter resonates with an important message: women have choices and should no longer emulate passive damsels in distress."
"Review" by , "McKinley has captured the timelessness of the traditional tale and breathed into it passion and new life appropriate to the story's own 'universal themes' of love and regeneration."
"Synopsis" by , McKinley (Beauty) returns to the story of Beauty and the Beast with a fresh, perspective, ingenuity, and mature insight, and presents her finest and most deeply felt work — a compelling, richly imagined, and haunting exploration of the transformative power of love.
"Synopsis" by ,
Twenty years ago, Robin McKinley dazzled readers with the power of her novel Beauty. Now this extraordinarily gifted novelist returns to the story of Beauty and the Beast with a fresh perspective, ingenuity, and mature insight.

With Rose Daughter, she presents her finest and most deeply felt work--a compelling, richly imagined, and haunting exploration of the transformative power of love.

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