Black Beauty (Great Classics for Children series) - Hardcover

Anna Sewell

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1403710082 ISBN 13: 9781403710086

Publisher: Dalmation Press, 2004

Synopsis

Introduce your child to Anna Sewell's Black Beauty in this delightful 182-page condensation of the classic American novel. This timeless tale has been adapted by Louise Colln and retains the flavor of the original. Illustrated with black and white drawings by artist Michael Fisher, the hardcover book will be a wonderful addition to your child's bookshelf. This beautiful book is part of The Great Classics for Children series published by Dalmatian Press and brought to you by Bendon Publishing. Bendon Publishing International provides entertaining, high quality books and activities for children.

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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 book is in Electronic Paperback Format. If you view this book on any of the computer systems below, it will look like a book. Simple to run, no program to install. Just put the CD in your CDROM drive and start reading. The simple easy to use interface is child tested at pre-school levels.

Windows 3.11, Windows/95, Windows/98, OS/2 and MacIntosh and Linux with Windows Emulation.

Includes Quiet Vision's Dynamic Index. the abilty to build a index for any set of characters or words.

About this edition

• Publisher: Dalmation Press
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 1403710082
• ISBN 13: 9781403710086
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 179