Happy Father’s Day!

Illustration from "Beauty and The Beast"  ONCE UPON A TIME A BOOK OF OLD-TIME FAIRY TALES.  Edited by Katharine Lee Bates.  Illustrated by Margaret Evans Price.  Rand McNally & Company: Chicago & New York. 1921.

Dear Father.

“Since you are so kind as to think of me, dear father,” answered Beauty, “I should like to have you bring me a rose, for we have none in our garden.”

It was not that Beauty cared so much for a rose, but she did not want it to look as if she were trying to be better than her sisters, who would have said she refused only to be praised.

Illustration from "Beauty and The Beast"  ONCE UPON A TIME A BOOK OF OLD-TIME FAIRY TALES.  Edited by Katharine Lee Bates.  Illustrated by Margaret Evans Price.  Rand McNally & Company: Chicago & New York. 1921.

From the story “Beauty and The Beast”

ONCE UPON A TIME

Edited by Katharine Lee Bates.

Illustrated by Margaret Evans Price.

Rand McNally & Company: Chicago & New York. 1921.

Poor Beast or Handsome Prince?

Illustration from Beauty and the Beast.  Fairy Tales Every Child Should Know.  Edited by Hamilton Wright Mabie  Illustrated and Decorated by:  Mary Hamilton Fry.  George Sully & Company:  New York.  1915.

“She saw at her feet, instead of the poor beast, a handsome prince.”

BEAUTY AND THE BEAST (From the French tale by Madame Gabrielle de Villeneuve)

Fairy Tales Every Child Should Know

Edited by:  Hamilton Wright Mabie.

Illustrated and Decorated by:  Mary Hamilton Fry.

George Sully & Company:  New York.  1915.

Poor Beast Shall Die Of Grief!

Illustration: Beauty and the Beast from the book Once Upon a Time
“Your Poor Beast Shall Die of Grief.”
Beauty And The Beast
Once Upon a Time – A Book of Old-Time Fairy Tales.
Edited, With Introduction by Katharine Lee Bates.
Illustrated by Margaret Evans Price.
Rand McNally & Company: Chicago and New York. 1921.

“I would rather die myself, dear Beauty,” replied the Beast, “than to make you unhappy. You may go to your father, and your poor Beast shall die of grief.”