Living with the Beast allows Belle to discover his kindness and caring, and before too long, she realizes that she has fallen in love. The Beast then demands that Belle come to his manor and show him what the Heartwood carving is to be. Instead of her merchant father picking a rose at the Beast’s manor, he instead decides to bring Belle a piece of wood from a special tree, the Heartwood. Belle herself, does not feel that she deserves a name that implies beauty, but, of course, she is about to learn that beauty is in the eye of the beholder.īelle loves to carve wood and has a magical gift that allows her to see exactly how each piece of wood desires to be shown. In this book, Belle has a happy and caring family with a mother and a father as well as two beautiful sisters. In order to expand the story to book length, she added details about Belle’s family. In this version the author changed a few minor details, but basically kept the story intact. Belle by Cameron Dokey is a fantasy retelling of one of my favorite fairy tales, “Beauty and the Beast”.
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