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La Bella e la Bestia: Classics

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Viaggia nel mondo della fantasia con le più belle storie classiche Disney.

96 pages, Paperback

First published September 1, 1991

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Note: The decision was made to consolidate all Disney publications under the name Walt Disney Company. This profile is for Walt Disney, the characters he created, and the company he founded. Any questions, please ask in the Librarian's Group.

Walter Elias “Walt” Disney (December 5, 1901 – December 15, 1966) was an American film producer, director, screenwriter, voice actor, animator, entrepreneur, entertainer, international icon, and philanthropist. Disney is famous for his influence in the field of entertainment during the 20th century. As the co-founder (with his brother Roy O. Disney) of Walt Disney Productions, Disney became one of the best-known motion picture producers in the world. The corporation he co-founded, now known as The Walt Disney Company, today has annual revenues of approximately U.S. $35 billion.

Disney is particularly noted for being a film producer and a popular showman, as well as an innovator in animation and theme park design. He and his staff created some of the world's most famous fictional characters including Mickey Mouse, a character for which Disney himself was the original voice. He has been awarded four honorary Academy Awards and has won twenty-two competitive Academy Awards out of fifty-nine nominations, including a record four in one year, giving him more awards and nominations than any other individual. He also won seven Emmy Awards. He is the namesake for Disneyland and Walt Disney World Resort theme parks in the United States, as well as the international resorts Tokyo Disney, Disneyland Paris, and Disneyland Hong Kong.

Disney died of lung cancer in Burbank, California, on December 15, 1966. The following year, construction began on Walt Disney World Resort in Florida. His brother Roy Disney inaugurated the Magic Kingdom on October 1, 1971.

The Walt Disney Company (NYSE: DIS) (commonly referred to as Disney) is the largest media and entertainment conglomerate in the world in terms of revenue. Founded on October 16, 1923, by brothers Walt Disney and Roy Disney as the Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio, the company was reincorporated as Walt Disney Productions in 1929. Walt Disney Productions established itself as a leader in the American animation industry before diversifying into live-action film production, television, and travel. Taking on its current name in 1986, The Walt Disney Company expanded its existing operations and also started divisions focused upon theatre, radio, publishing, and online media. In addition, it has created new divisions of the company in order to market more mature content than it typically associates with its flagship family-oriented brands.

The company is best known for the products of its film studio, the Walt Disney Motion Pictures Group, today one of the largest and best-known studios in Hollywood. Disney also owns and operates the ABC broadcast television network; cable television networks such as Disney Channel, ESPN, and ABC Family; publishing, merchandising, and theatre divisions; and owns and licenses 11 theme parks around the world. On January 23, 2006, it was announced that Disney would purchase Pixar in an all-stock transaction worth $7.4 billion. The deal was finalized on May 5. On December 31, 2009, Disney Company acquired the Marvel Entertainment, Inc. for $4.24 billion. The company has been a component of the Dow Jones Industrial Average since May 6, 1991. An early and well-known cartoon creation of the company, Mickey Mouse, is the official mascot of The Walt Disney Company.

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Profile Image for Nayra.Hassan.
1,260 reviews6,735 followers
December 22, 2022
و ستظل الجميلة تبحث عن مفتاح النور بداخل الوحش لتنير روحه..و في رحلة البحث سيذوي جمالها..و تخمد جذوة الأمل و الخير في قلبها..و قد تموت روحها قبل ان تجد النور؛ و قد لا تجده
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ستبقى الجميلة و الوحش اجمل قصة خيالية-واقعية عن الزواج او عن جوهر العلاقة الأبدية بين الرجل و المرأة
كل فتاة تحمل بداخلها" بيل" المليئة بالثقة في قوة الحب على التغيير...و كل رجل هو نصف وحش و لا ينتظر من يغيره على الاطلاق !! و من هنا تأتي أهمية القصص الخيالية
فلنجعل الرجل مسحوراً.. .و قبحه الخارجي هو السبب في قبح تصرفاته..و لن تزول اللعنة الا لو فهم كيف يحب و يتحب. .و تعود بالطبع للقرن 18

القصة 36 صفحة لكنها حافلة بالرموز. .عن الإقطاع.. العبودية و الأسر. .الذل والقهر. .و طبعا هي بعيدة عن نسخة ديزني الفاتنة ..و اان اشتركا في الهدف المعروف "الحب أقوى من اي سحر"!!!ا
و في الواقع أقول انا : فلتحبي الوحش كما هو
..و لا تنتظري معجزات
Profile Image for Manny.
Author 48 books16.2k followers
May 25, 2011
Love the movie, hate, hate, HATE the marketing. The moral, which could not be presented more clearly, is that true beauty comes from within. Belle, the heroine of the story, is an intelligent and sensible girl who's usually got her nose in a book. Throughout virtually the whole film she wears this practical blue dress:

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But in 95% of the merchandise - dolls, posters, lunch-boxes etc - she is depicted wearing her admittedly tasteful but rather surprisingly revealing yellow ball gown, gazing up at the Beast with languishing eyes:

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Am I the only person in the world who finds this intensely irritating?
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1,958 reviews1,422 followers
November 2, 2022
VERSION: Disney (technically, Retold Beaumont)
ADAPTATION: 4.5 stars.
ARTWORK: 5 stars
BEAUTY: Brunette.
BEAST: He has the head of a buffalo, the mane of a lion, the brow of a gorilla, human eyes, the tusks of a wild boar, the arms and body of a bear, and the legs and tail of a wolf.
CURSE: An enchantress cursed the prince as a boy for being unkind to her.
THE Rs: Expanded and made more natural.
KEY ELEMENT CHANGED: The curse, Belle has no siblings, Adam was cursed as a boy, there's a rival for Belle's affection, Maurice isn't economically ruined, the castle servants are turned into furniture. Basically, it's a retelling and should be considered its own version, the third after Villeneuve and Beaumont.
FAVOURITE SCENE:





I've never been the biggest fan of Disney's version of Beauty and the Beast, but I've always loved the art and the visuals of the motion picture film, and it's nice to have a copy in paper for my collection, and for gazing at without having to rewatch. The artwork looks superior on the screen, though, especially the colours and facial expressions.

Positives first: their depiction of Beast is exactly what Beast should be: hulking, animalistic, imposing, frightening, and awe-inspiring. He isn't supposed to be simply a man with an animal's head; that look would make him appear like he's wearing a mask like at a costume party. And who is ever frightened into trembling by such an appearance? Beauty wouldn't be. Beast is supposed to make you fear him for how he looks and love him for how he is, and in that, Disney was incredibly successful. It's no doubt one of my favourite depictions of him, and regardless of what I think of the plot, this is always going to be the highlight of Disney's version.

The castle, the town Belle lives in, everything in the film is superb. It's an artist's dream. Belle's looks, her iconic yellow dress, the dance, the dining scene... So many things to appreciate and gaze at, the creators did so much right visually. Storytelling on the screen is visual, and they excelled at it.

So why was Disney not my favourite? In a nutshell, because of the curse. In this reread of my top favourite B&B picture books, I've said over and over that the reason for the curse is important, and that both Villeneuve, the creator of the tale, and Beaumont, the populariser of the tale, have made it clear it was not the prince's fault. But Disney, who based their version on Beaumont, decided to make this a tale about punishment for bad behaviour and made it so that child Prince Adam got cursed because he was unkind to an enchantress. It was his fault, he "asked for it."

And that's always rubbed me the wrong way. Beauty and the Beast is a tale about personal transformation and redemption, and making it the prince's fault didn't work well thematically. I hated Disney's take for the longest time for this, whilst at the same time feeling conflicted because I liked their art so much, liked their Beast so much.

Then came people like Jerry Griswold, and especially Bethel Grove, who presented such convincing and well-argued analyses of Disney, and I was convinced, slowly but surely, I read more academic papers and books, and finally came to like the Disney version. For better or for worse, Disney is the version that everyone knows, and so there's no longer two version but three: Villeneuve, Beaumont, and Disney.

Now I'm happy to count Disney amongst my favourites. I'll probably always rant about ignorant people who can't tell one version for another and mix the tale and the film when adapting it into picture books, but that's par for the course. Not everyone is careful to research the tale, after all.
Profile Image for Sonja Rosa Lisa ♡  .
5,094 reviews638 followers
November 19, 2024
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Ein wunderschönes Märchen, welches ich schon eliche Male gelesen, gehört und gesehen habe in verschiedenen Ausführungen.
Ein Mädchen, das Bücher liebt. Ein verzauberter Prinz auf einem verzauberten Schloss und ganz entzückende Bedienstete, verwandelt in Geschirr und Uhren :)
Am Ende wird es noch mal richtig dramatisch und spannend; dann gibt es aber natürlich ein Happy End!
Ich liebe es 🧡
Profile Image for Taghreed Jamal El Deen.
707 reviews680 followers
February 22, 2016
من صغري وهالقصة أحب قصص الطفولة لقلبي ..
" الحب الصادق يلي بيقبلنا رغم بشاعتنا وعيوبنا بيقدر يعمل معجزات ويطلّع أحلى ما فينا " مؤمنة جدا بهي الحقيقة ♥
كنت حابة اقرأ الحكاية الأصلية ودورت كتير ولقيت نسخ مختلفة لعدة كتّاب ما عرفت أيا فيهم الأصلية ! وبالنهاية قرأت نسخة ديزني اللي قرأتا بطفولتي .. إذا حدا من الأصدقاء بيعرف النسخة الأصلية بالعربي أو الإنجليزي يا ريت يساعدني
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7 reviews
January 15, 2010
I must say that I think Beauty and the Beast is one of the best Disney stories. I love how Belle is able to look beyond the physical appearance of the Beast.
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29 reviews
January 11, 2011
omg i loveeeed this.... shout out to 7th grade!
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February 18, 2015
Bennett cried when the Beast turned human again. Daddy says it's because this is a girl book and beasts>princes!
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333 reviews54 followers
April 27, 2017
You may be wondering why on Earth I am posting so many reviews of short kids' books, and the answer is that I'm moving house for the first time since I was a toddler. I'm essentially having to pack up my childhood here!! Having to say goodbye to so many books is devastating, but on the plus side, it gives me a reason to sit and scroll throw all these gorgeous picture books. This one is an early reader's Book of the Film of the brilliant Beauty and the Beast (my favourite Disney film as well!!) and while it is sumptuously illustrated with painted stills from the film and retells the famous story with wistful nostalgia, it is of course rather inconsequential and only worth 2.5 stars at the most. However, for kids that love the film (me too!), this does the trick. There's also some surprisingly difficult words thrown in here, so perfect for children trying to expand their vocabulary (and adults too, I suppose).
Profile Image for Briceyda Pardo.
26 reviews
February 28, 2017
l love this book and it is so romantic l just like the part when the beauty and the beast just started dancing and l loved it l wish l was the beauty :)
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Author 2 books14 followers
April 7, 2017
4.4*/5*

...but we all know beauty and the beast is my fave so it gets 5* oh
Profile Image for Les Wilson.
1,832 reviews14 followers
May 9, 2021
Lovely story for Young and young at heart.
Profile Image for Ashley Reid.
152 reviews119 followers
September 9, 2022
Beauty and the beast has always been one of my favourite stories.

Unfortunately I couldn’t watch the movies because of my seizures. But I’ve always wanted the library that the beast gave to Belle.
35 reviews
May 3, 2018
Personal Response: Growing up, this was always my favorite story. I read this book to Emilee. Emilee's favorite part was when they got married. Her least favorite part was when Belle got locked up in the cage in the castle. She also doesn't like Gaston because he is mean.

Plot Summary: Belle is an ordinary girl who loves to read. She lives with her father. When he goes missing, she tries to find him and ends up in a castle. Belle doesn't realize that it's home to the beast. He captures her and let's her father go free. She is imprisoned there for her life. Belle befriends all of the enchanted objects in the castle. She finds a rose that can turn the beast back into human if someone falls in love with him. Belle doesn't realize that she is about to start falling in love. They spend much time together but a magic mirror shows that Belle' s father is sick. She goes to him and tries to help. Gaston, the evil prince, takes the village and storms the beasts castle. They fight and the beast ends up winning. He and Belle kiss and he turns back into a prince. They live together happily ever after

Characterization: Belle has always been strong and independent. She doesn't need anyone to make her feel special. Men have always thrown themselves at her, but she prefers to stay away. When she meets the beast, it is not love at first sight. They talk and grow to love each other. They have both found the person that they didn't know they needed.

Recommendations: I would recommend this book to young girls. It is an easy to read book, but you can also read it to any small child. Ages 0 to 5 would most likely enjoy this book. It is about true love.
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159 reviews175 followers
March 13, 2013
Lo he encontrado tras años sin tener noticias de él. Estaba en casa de mi abuela y tenía que ponerlo aquí.

Fue el primero libro que me regalaron, apenas recuerdo como lo leía -apenas no, no lo recuerdo-, y tampoco sé quién me lo regaló, tengo que preguntar a mi madre.

Creo que fue este libro -y la película- y Bella quienes me inculcaron el placer por la lectura, ver a una protagonista que no paraba de leer me gustó mucho, por eso me identifico tanto con ella, imagino que a muchas otras lectoras le pasa algo parecido.

Lo voy a guardar como oro en paño, ¡es mi primer libro!
29 reviews2 followers
October 11, 2017
I love the story and structure of this book, the subject of this book is very clear, the content is also very complete. Read this book I know Love is the topic of the whole story which can,change any dark and evil stuff.Love means everything,The real world is full of war and darkness,which turns people's life in to chaos.Human's life lacks of Love ,and if the love exists ,humen have the power beat everything.
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1,437 reviews38 followers
November 9, 2025
Un racconto antico come il tempo, riscritto con grazia e dolcezza. Tra castelli incantati, rose che sfioriscono e cuori che imparano ad amare, Ellen Titlebaum cattura tutta la magia e la poesia del classico Disney. Belle e la Bestia ci insegnano che la vera bellezza non si vede con gli occhi, ma si sente con l’anima. Un libro illustrato che fa sognare, perfetto per chi crede ancora nelle fiabe
Profile Image for Omnia reda.
71 reviews10 followers
September 23, 2018
love love love , love the book , love the animation and absolutely will love the 2017`s movie with the belle Emma Watson
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115 reviews11 followers
August 1, 2019
I read this to my little and it has been since I was little that I last read it. All the nostalgic feels came back and he was enthralled throughout the story. <3<3
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12 reviews1 follower
March 4, 2020
One of my favourites since I was younger Very good message too😀
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115 reviews18 followers
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June 13, 2025
Adding this bedtime book for Della on here bc the one I just read was 96 pages! haha
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99 reviews13 followers
June 7, 2023
Pierwsza książka czytana w całość po angielsku🔝
KOCHAM BAJKI pls czułam się znowu jakbym miała 5 lat and it was fun
POLECAM
Cudowne 40 stron XD
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