Authors: Donna Jo Napoli
Beast (23 page)
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
An imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division
1230 Avenue of the Americas
New York, New York 10020
Copyright © 2000 by Donna Jo Napoli
Map by Elena Furrow
All rights reserved, including the right of reproduction in whole or in part in any form.
Book design by Michael Nelson
The text of this book is set in Cochin.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Napoli, Donna Jo, 1948-
Beast / by Donna Jo Napoli.
p. cm.
Summary: Elaborates on the tale of “Beauty and the Beast,” told from the point of view of the beast and set in Persia.
ISBN 0-689-83589-2
ISBN-13: 978-1-4391-1545-9 (eBook)
[1. Fairy tales. 2. Iran â Fiction.] I. Beauty and the beast. English. II. Title.
PZ8.N127U2000
[Fic]-dc21 99-89923