The Beauty And The Beast (Collector’s Edition) by Gabrielle-Suzanna Barbot de Villenueve & MinaLima

Generations of readers have been bewitched by the epic love storyby Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve of a beautiful young girl who falls in love with a ferocious beast. Now, the classic fairy tale is reimagined in this deluxe unabridged collector’s edition. With all new lush illustrations and exclusive interactive elements from the award winning design studio MinaLima, this charming book invites you to explore the Beast’s enchanted palace with Beauty and a host of magical creatures.

The Beauty and the Beastis packed withspecially commissioned, full-colour artwork and nine exclusive interactive features, including a fold-out map of the rich French city where the Merchant (Beauty’s father) and his family reside, a fold out that reveals the interior of the Beast’s enchanted palace, a series of flaps that open to reveal different entertainments available to Beauty in the Beast’s palace and a dial of the ring Beauty turns on her finger to return to the Beast.

MinaLima are design duo Miraphora and Eduardo. Miraphora Mina graduated in Theatre Design from London’s Central Saint Martins School of Art and Design in 1987. Eduardo Lima graduated in 1997 in Visual Communications from Pontifical Universidade Catolica, Rio de Janeiro. They started working together in 2002 to imagine and create the graphic universe of the Harry Potter™ film series for Warner Bros. films. Sharing a common artistic vision, they crafted the entire graphic style of all the Harry Potter™ movies. Motivated by this flourishing collaboration, in 2009 they formed their own design studio, MinaLima, with the objective of creating distinctive and unconventional design and illustration for the entertainment and publishing industries.

Hardback: 208 pages.

24cm x 16.5cm.

Age: 5+ Years.

ISBN:9780062456212.