Horse Stories The Naming of Black Beauty book is a beautifully illustrated introduction to classic literature for kids ages 5-8.
Charming illustrations bring each of the four enchanting stories of bravery and adventure to life. The tales, including an extract from Anna Sewell's Black Beauty and Andrew Lang's The War Horse of Alexander, have been simply retold to encourage young readers.
Stories found in Horse Stories The Naming of Black Beauty book:
# Old Gunpowder and the Ghost by Washington Irving
# Pegasus, the Winged Horse by James Baldwin
# The Naming of Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
# The War Horse of Alexander by Andrew Lang
An extract from The Naming of Black Beauty:
Just then a horse's head looked over from the stall beyond, the ears were laid back, and the eye looked rather ill-tempered. This was a tall chestnut mare, with a long handsome neck. She looked across to me and said, "So it is you who has turned me out of my box, it is a very strange thing for a colt like you to come and turn a lady out of her own home."
"I beg your pardon," I said, "I have turned no one out, the man who brought me put me here, and I had nothing to do with it, and as to my being a colt, I am turned four years old and am a grown-up horse. I never had words yet with horse or mare and it is my wish to live in peace."
"Well," she said, "we shall see."
I said no more.
This book is part of a book series called Horse Stories .
This book is aimed at children in primary school.
There are 40 pages in this book. This book was published 2014 by Miles Kelly Publishing Ltd .
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.
This book is in the following series:
Horse Stories
This series features delightful horse stories from around the world.
