Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont, Jorgen Moe Beauty and the Beast & East of the Sun, West of the Moon

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Enjoy two traditional and beloved loved fairy tales known tomany generations of children, presented in an entertaining and wonderfullyappealing way with a full cast of characters. Beauty & the BeastBeauty is kind and loving, even though her two sisters teaseher and her merchant father is too poor to buy her presents. All she wants is arose-so when her father sees a beautiful rose bush in the grounds of theBeast's castle, he plucks a flower for her. But the Beast is angry-and hedemands something precious in return.East of the Sun, Westof the MoonIn this Norwegian tale, a peasant farmer sends his youngestdaughter to live with a mysterious white bear in exchange for untold riches. Butwhen the girl ignores the bear's advice she must travel to a castle east of thesun and west of the moon to face the Troll Queen and make things right again.