Black Beauty-Treasury of Illustrated Classics Storybook Collection - Hardcover

Anna Sewell

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0766633349 ISBN 13: 9780766633346

Publisher: Kappa Books Publishers, 2017

Synopsis

While Living at Squire Gordon's country estate, the spirited young horse, Black Beauty, is well taken care of and happy. But when the squire is forced to sell his horses, Black Beauty's life changes as he is passed form one cruel master to another. After much hardship and perserverance, Black Beauty finally finds a home full of love and kindness. This easy to read adaptation of the classic novel is guaranteed to hook beginning readers not yet ready to tackle the original.

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Review:

A horse is a horse of course unless of course the horse is Black Beauty. Animal-loving children have been devoted to Black Beauty throughout this century, and no doubt will continue through the next. Although Anna Sewell's classic paints a clear picture of turn-of-the-century London, its message is universal and timeless: animals will serve humans well if they are treated with consideration and kindness.

Black Beauty tells the story of the horse's own long and varied life, from a well-born colt in a pleasant meadow to an elegant carriage horse for a gentleman to a painfully overworked cab horse. Throughout, Sewell rails--in a gentle, 19th-century way--against animal maltreatment. Young readers will follow Black Beauty's fortunes, good and bad, with gentle masters as well as cruel. Children can easily make the leap from horse-human relationships to human-human relationships, and begin to understand how their own consideration of others may be a benefit to all. (Ages 9 to 12)

From the Publisher:

This edition is printed in specially-designed large type for easier reading, and is printed on non-glare paper.

About this edition

• Publisher: Kappa Books Publishers
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 0766633349
• ISBN 13: 9780766633346
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 192