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

www.SimonandSchuster.com

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 — Fiction.] I. Beauty and the beast. English. II. Title.

PZ8.N127U2000

[Fic]-dc21 99-89923