In 2008, she was inducted into their Hall of Fame. Craft has won more than one hundred graphic-arts awards, including five gold medals from the Society of Illustrators. Read more Beast is the ninth picture book of his design. After completing postgraduate studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in the 1960s, he worked as an award-winning art director and graphic designer. He is a graduate of the Art Academy of Cincinnati.

Beauty and the Beast is his second published work as an author.

Read more and Sleeping Beauty, this timeless tale is brought to life with sumptuous paintings and ornamental detail in this lush picture book to be cherished at story time again and again. In the spirit of the Crafts' previous collaborations, their acclaimed fairy-tale retellings of Cinderella. The beast and the girl fall in love and live happily ever after.This beloved tale is captured with lyrical prose and lavish illustration. His beautiful daughter sacrifices herself to a life in the beast's castle to protect her father. The tale is as old as time: A man steals a rose from the garden of a beast. Award-winning team Mahlon and Kinuko Craft bring us a gorgeous and vivid retelling of the classic story of Beauty and the Beast in this stunningly illustrated picture book. In a glorious castle set deep in a mysterious forest, the tale of a father's fate-filled promise and a daughter's courage unfolds. Description for Beauty and the Beast Hardcover.

Sleeping Beauty by Mahlon F. Craft