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Beautyby Robin McKinleyISBN 0385604807 (0-385-60480-7)
Hardcover, RHCB
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Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beastby Robin McKinleyISBN 0060753102 (0-06-075310-2)
Softcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast'Book summary:This much-loved retelling of the classic French tale Beauty and the Beast elicits the familiar magical charm, but is more believable and complex than the traditional story. In this version, Beauty is not as beautiful as her older sisters, who are both lovely and kind. Here, in fact, Beauty has no confidence in her appearance but takes pride in her own intelligence, her love of learning and books, and her talent in riding. She is the most competent of the three sisters, which proves essential when they are forced to retire to the country because of their father's financial ruin.
The plot follows that of the renowned legend: Beauty selflessly agrees to inhabit the Beast's castle to spare her father's life. Beauty's gradual acceptance of the Beast and the couple's deepening trust and affection are amplified in novel form. Robin McKinley's writing has the flavor of another century, and Beauty heightens the authenticity as a reliable and competent narrator.
This was McKinley's first book, written almost 20 years ago. Since that time she has been awarded the Newbery Medal for The Hero and the Crown and has delighted her fans with another retelling of the Beauty and the Beast fable, Rose Daughter. Still, McKinley's first novel has a special place in the hearts of her devoted readers, many of whom attest to relishing Beauty time and again. (Ages 11 to Adult) [via]
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- Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast: ISBN 0064404773 (0-06-440477-3)
Softcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books - Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast: ISBN 0060241497 (0-06-024149-7)
Hardcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books - Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast: ISBN 0060241500 (0-06-024150-0)
Hardcover, Harpercollins - Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast: ISBN 0060753102 (0-06-075310-2)
Softcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
- Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast: ISBN 0064404773 (0-06-440477-3)
Black Beautyby Anna Sewell, Robin McKinley , Susan JeffersISBN 0241121027 (0-241-12102-7)
Hardcover, Penguin Books, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Black Beauty'Book summary:A horse is a horse of course unless of course the horse is Black Beauty. Animal-loving children have been devoted to Black Beauty throughout this century, and no doubt will continue through the next. Although Anna Sewell's classic paints a clear picture of turn-of-the-century London, its message is universal and timeless: animals will serve humans well if they are treated with consideration and kindness.
Black Beauty tells the story of the horse's own long and varied life, from a well-born colt in a pleasant meadow to an elegant carriage horse for a gentleman to a painfully overworked cab horse. Throughout, Sewell rails--in a gentle, 19th-century way--against animal maltreatment. Young readers will follow Black Beauty's fortunes, good and bad, with gentle masters as well as cruel. Children can easily make the leap from horse-human relationships to human-human relationships, and begin to understand how their own consideration of others may be a benefit to all. (Ages 9 to 12) [via]
Black Beautyby Robin McKinley , Anna Sewell, Susan JeffersISBN 0333493346 (0-333-49334-6)
Softcover, Pan Macmillan
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The Blue Swordby Robin McKinleyISBN 014130975X (0-14-130975-X)
Softcover, Puffin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Blue Sword'Book summary:Harry Crewe is an orphan girl who comes to live in Damar, the desert country shared by the Homelanders and the secretive, magical Hillfolk. Her life is quiet and ordinary-until the night she is kidnapped by Corlath, the Hillfolk King, who takes her deep into the desert. She does not know the Hillfolk language; she does not know why she has been chosen. But Corlath does. Harry is to be trained in the arts of war until she is a match for any of his men. Does she have the courage to accept her true fate?
"McKinley's spare and eloquent prose is sheer delight... a compelling portrait of the vibrant, wryly humorous Harry." -School Library Journal, starred review
"This is a zesty, romantic heroic...." -Booklist, starred review
Awards:
( A 1983 Newbery Honor Book
( An ALA Notable Book
( An ALA Best Book for Young Adults [via] -
Hero and the Crownby Robin McKinleyISBN 0141309814 (0-14-130981-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hero and the Crown'Book summary:Although she is the daughter of Damar's king, Aerin has never been accepted as full royalty. Both in and out of the royal court, people whisper the story of her mother, the witchwoman, who was said to have enspelled the king into marrying her to get an heir to rule Damar-then died of despair when she found she had borne a daughter instead of a son. But none of them, not even Aerin herself, can predict her future-for she is to be the true hero who will wield the power of the Blue Sword...[via] -
A Knot in the Grain: And Other Storiesby Robin McKinleyISBN 0064406040 (0-06-440604-0)
Softcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Knot in the Grain: And Other Stories'Book summary:Lily. A woman with power to heal, but no powers of speech. Then she meets a mage---a man who can hear the words she forms only in her mind. Will he help her find her voice?
Ruen. A princess whose uncle leaves her deep in a cave to die at the hands of a stagman. But when she meets the stagman at last, Ruendiscovers fatehas a few surprises in store for her.
Erana, As a baby, she is taken be a witch in return for the healing herbs her father stole from the witch's garden. Raised alongsidethe witch's troll son, Erana learns that love comes in many forms.
Coral. A beautiful young newcomerwho catches the eye of an older widowed farmer. He can't believe his good fortune when Coral consents to be his wife. But then the doubts set in---what is it that draws Coral to Butter Hill?
Annabelle. When her family moves, the summer befre her junior year of High School, Annabelle spends all her time in the attic of their new house--until she finds the knot in the gain which leads her on a magical mission. [via]More editions of A Knot in the Grain: And Other Stories:
Light Princessby Robin McKinley , George MacDonald, Katie Thamer TreherneISBN 0152453008 (0-15-245300-8)
Hardcover, Harcourt Childrens Books
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The Outlaws of Sherwoodby Robin McKinleyISBN 0141312394 (0-14-131239-4)
Softcover, Penguin Merchandise
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A Robin McKinley Collectionby Robin McKinleyISBN 0142302333 (0-14-230233-3)
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Robin McKinley Omnibusby Robin McKinleyISBN 0385608632 (0-385-60863-2)
Hardcover, Random House
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Spindle's Endby Robin McKinleyISBN 038560419X (0-385-60419-X)
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The Stone Feyby Robin McKinley , John ClappISBN 0152000178 (0-15-200017-8)
Hardcover, Harcourt Children's Books
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Tales from the Jungle Bookby Rudyard Kipling, Robin McKinley , Joseph A. SmithISBN 0394869400 (0-394-86940-0)
Hardcover, Random House Children's Books
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Waterby Robin McKinley , Peter DickinsonISBN 0142402443 (0-14-240244-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Water'Book summary:What magical beings inhabit earth?s waters? Some are as almost-familiar as the mer- people; some as strange as the thing glimpsed only as a golden eye in a pool at the edge of Damar?s Great Desert Kalarsham, where the mad god Geljdreth rules; or as majestic as the unknowable, immense Kraken, dark beyond the darkness of the deepest ocean, who will one day rise and rule the world. These six tales from the remarkable storytellers Robin McKinley and Peter Dickinson transform the simple element of water into something very powerful indeed.[via]
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