Beauty and the Beast author-Sophie Escabasse But when her mean-girl team

But when her mean-girl team captain Lindsay goes after Alix with her cruelest dig yet

The War of the Ring takes up the story with the Battle of Helm’s Deep and the drowning of Isengard by the Ents

Alina reveals a dormant power that saves her life—a power that could be the key to setting her war-ravaged country free

A critical

so that she may live on land instead

Beauty and the Beast author-Sophie Escabasse But when her mean-girl teamMAYER, Marianna. Beauty and the Beast. Illustrated by Mercer Mayer. NY: Four Winds Press [1978]. Oblong 4to, [48]pp. Mustard cloth pictorially stamped in gilt. Red endpapers; color illustrations on nearly every page. Lower spine ends a tad rubbed, some scuffing to cloth else a clean, tight copy in original color pictorial dust jacket (light creasing to top rear corner, spine ends a tad rubbed). First edition. A gorgeous retelling of the classic