Alma and the Beast Atheneum Books for Young Readers Bea is always sad to

Bea is always sad to leave at the end of the weekend because she worries that Granny will be lonely without her

award-winning artist Rafael López

shattered landscape of grief

but spent his early years in Stuttgart

Illustrating poetry from such authors as Anne McCaffrey

Alma and the Beast Atheneum Books for Young Readers Bea is always sad toAlma's beautiful, hairy world is turned upside down by the arrival of a stranger. From the utterly original imagination of the author illustrator of Ooko comes a story about celebrating differences and making new friends. For fans of Where the Wild Things Are and Wild. Alma lives happily in her hairy world, where she can braid the trees, comb the grass, pet the roof and feed her plumpooshkie butterfly. Until one day . . . a hairless, button nosed