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Black Beauty (Vintage Children's Classics)

Black Beauty (Vintage Children's Classics)

Current price: $10.99
Publication Date: April 1st, 2013
Publisher:
Vintage Children's Classics
ISBN:
9780099572930
Pages:
320

Description

Includes character guide, horse terms, quiz, author info, and historical horse info

"You saved your mistress's life, Beauty! Yes, you saved her life."

Black Beauty is the prettiest young horse in the meadows, and spends many happy days under the apple trees with his friends Ginger and Merrylegs. But this easy life comes to an end when Beauty is sold and goes from farm to inn to cabhorse in London, enduring rough treatment from foolish and careless masters. Beauty remains faithful, hardworking, and full of spirit despite his trials, and through him we learn that all horses and humans alike deserve to be treated with kindness.

About the Author

Anna Sewell (1820–1878) wrote Black Beauty in order to convince a wide audience of the importance of the humane treatment of animals. It is her only novel.

Praise for Black Beauty (Vintage Children's Classics)

"One of the greatest books ever narrated by a horse, with a fine message: be kind to animals, and they'll be kind to you."  —Michael Morpurgo, author, War Horse