The tale is as old as time: A man steals a rose from the garden of a beast. His beautiful daughter sacrifices herself to a life in the beast’s castle to protect her father. The beast and the girl fall in love and live happily ever after….

In a glorious palace set deep in a mysterious forest, the tale of a father’s fate-filled promise and a daughter’s courage unfolds with lyrical prose and lavish illustration.

In the spirit of Mahlon and Kinuko Craft’s previous collaborations, their acclaimed fairy-tale retellings of Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty, this classic story is brought to life with sumptuous paintings and ornamental detail in this lush picture book to be cherished at story time again and again.