Black Beauty, the autobiography of a horse, is one of the most sensitive animal stories ever written.
This book is part of a book series called Great Little Classics .
There are 36 pages in this book.
This is a picture book. A picture book uses pictures and text to tell the story. The number of words varies from zero ('wordless') to around 1k over 32 pages. Picture books are typically aimed at young readers (age 3-6) but can also be aimed at older children (7+).
This book was published in 2021 by Faros Books .
Antonis Papatheodoulou has published more than 40 books. He has won the International Compostela Prize for picture books 2016, the Greek State Picturebook Award 2011, the Illustrated Children's Book Award of "Diavazo" literary magazine 2011, the Greek State Picturebook Award 2012, the Illustrated Book Award of the Greek section of IBBY 2012 and the Non Fiction Award of the Greek section of IBBY 2015. Four of his titles have been included in the White Ravens list. He lives in Athens with his family. Iris Samartzi was born in Athens. She studied Graphic Design and Interior Design-Decoration at the Vakalo School of Arts where she graduated with a scholarship. She has attended workshops for children's painting and dramatic art in education. Since 2004 she mainly focuses on children's books illustrations. Many of her books have won the Greek State Award and The Greek IBBY Award. Her picturebook One Last Letter won The Compostela 2016 International Prize. Anna Sewell (1820-78) was a British novelist. Black Beauty was her only published work.
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 doctor’s stables he discovers that the groom is none other than Joe. Beauty lives out the rest of his life in the doctor’s fields, happy and cared for.
This book features the following characters:
Ginger
Ginger is the chestnut horse that becomes friendly with Black Beauty when they are both carriage horses at Birtwick Park. She has a rough life and is consequently pretty sassy. The two friends go separate ways but meet again as broken-down cab horses in London.
Jimmy Barker
This book features the character Jimmy Barker.
Joe Green
This book features the character Joe Green.
Black Beauty
Black Beauty is a handsome black horse who narrates his story in the novel of the same name. He begins his career as a carriage horse for wealthy people but after a fall he is sacked and made to do much harder work. Beauty always tries his best despite the difficult circumstances he finds himself in.
