Marie-Michelle Joy

This book is about a young girl, Belle, and an odd relationship that she develops with a beast that she encounters on her quest to rescue her father, from the beast. As she is kept as a prisoner of the beast, in place of her father, the two begin to fall in love, but know they could never be together. Eventually, as the beast is almost put to death, the two express their love for one another, turning the beast back into a man, once again. This book would be great to use in a classroom when discussing how we should treat people, even when they are different from us, the same way that we want to be treated. This book also expresses the point of accepting someone just the way they are, no matter their physical appearance.… (mais)