Emma Watson look very much like a modern day Belle from Beauty and the Beast when she stepped out in Dior Haute Couture as she visited the New York Film Society Kids program. She read a passage from Beauty and the Beast to the children in the audience and shared her love of reading.

Recently Emma has shared her favorite books on social media, and has been hiding novels in cities around the world for random passersby to find and enjoy. In New York she honored this year’s International Women’s Day, the gender rights activist, in partnership with Book Faries left literature that was signed and by women throughout the city. She visited Harriet Tubman Memorial, the Joan of Arc Memorial, the Gertrude Stein statue and the Eleanor Roosevelt Monument.

At the Beauty and the Beast NYC premiere, Emma was all chic in her sultry, sheer black dress.