Beauty (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition)

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My third grade teacher read this book to our class and I instantly fell in love with it. I'm 20 years old now and Beauty is still one of my favorite books. It teaches children a valuable lesson in the importance of family and friendship and is a great book for parents to read to their children. I'll guarantee that the parents will enjoy it just as much (if not more!) as their children. I highly recommend this book to ALL ages.

It was about an old horse that became Lukes best friend.he'd told her about his hopes,dreams,and he knew that secrets with beauty will never be revealed come visit the wonderful journeys of this book Beauty. I loved this book because it showed me that friendship has no limits. It showed me the meaning of carring for your loved ones.

As a child this was a book that just made me angry. I read this when I was eight years old. I remember reading it because I loved horses as a child, I was one of those little girls, enchanted by them. My best friend, also a horse lover, told me the ending (when I asked) and I was upset by it. Not upset in a sad way. I was angered by it. It pissed me off, for a lack of better words. Even as a child this contrived ending offended me. The fact that this author would recycle an ending like this, and expect children to buy it so easily. I didn't bother finishing the book after that. In fact, I threw the book away, because it made me so incensed. There is a difference between writing a classic, where you learn things from it--Old Yeller, and simply manipulating a reader's emotions--Beauty. Even as an eight year old I knew the difference.