Probably the most popular horse story of all time,
Black Beauty tells the story of one horse's long and varied life. On the one hand, a fully engaging novel and on the other hand, a strong statement against animal maltreatment. Anna Sewell's classic novel has enthralled readers since it was first published in 1877.
This book is part of a book series called Aladdin Classics .
This book has been graded for interest at 8-12 years.
There are 224 pages in this book. This book was published 2012 by Simon & Schuster .
Anna Sewell (1820-78) was a British novelist. Black Beauty was her only published work. Carol Fenner was an award-winning author of children's books, winning the Christopher Award and the Coretta Scott King Award, as well as twice being a runner up for the Newbery Award. Kathleen M Peyton is a top-selling author of more than thirty novels and is a winner of both the Carnegie Medal and the Guardian Award. She lives in Essex with her husband. Christine Pullein-Thompson was born in 1925 and wrote over 100 books, a great many of which were about horses and ponies.
This book contains the following story:
Black Beauty
When he comes of age, the horse Black Beauty is sold to a grand house to be a carriage horse. The groom, Joe, is kind but his masters are cruel. Every day Beauty and his fellow horse, Ginger, are shackled to the carriage with a tight bearing rein to keep their heads held high, and the two horses are whipped and generally mistreated. When Ginger misbehaves she is taken away. When Beauty smashes his knee he is sold to a London cabby. Pulling a cab through all the weather is hard work but Jerry is kind to Beauty and he is happy. Then Jerry is offered a job as groom by a customer and has to sell Beauty. His next master is harsh and cruel. But then Black Beauty is rescued by a horse doctor and at the doctors stables he discovers that the groom is none other than Joe. Beauty lives out the rest of his life in the doctors fields, happy and cared for.
