Learning & Development: Book choice

Nursery World, 19 June 2008

- Little Beauty by Anthony Browne

Walker Books, hardback, £10.99 Pink and white roses on the opening pages echo the traditional tale of Beauty and the Beast. But this time, the Beast is Browne's famous gorilla and Beauty is a little kitten. The two become inseparable after the gorilla signs to his keepers that he is lonely and wants a friend. When the gorilla smashes the TV and his keepers threaten to take Beauty away, the little kitten steps in to take the blame and so ensure Beauty and the Beast live 'happily ever after'. A modern fairytale with tributes,...

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