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To Gregory with love, Happy Birthday !!! Music: “Reach the Sky” Gregor Daniel ::::::::::::: Beauty and the Beast (originally a folk tale from India) begins as a cultural commentary of Indian marriage norms and continues through Beaumont's story and inevitably into Harris's retelling where the practice of arranged marriage is the norm. Ultimately, maintaining a form of social relevance. Errol Le Cain (March 5, 1941- January 3, 1989) emerged as a major contributor to the revival of nostalgic illustration within children's literature from 1960-1980. Although never formally trained in art, Le Cain's exposure to Indian and Oriental culture as well as English literature defined his hybrid illustrative style, paying homage to Walter Crane, Edmund Dulac and Kay Nielsen. Faber and Faber's Beauty and the Beast is a work that displays Le Cain's maturation as an artist where his intricate detailing and fusion of genres produce a symbiotic relationship between il
