Black Beauty - Softcover

Sewell, Anna

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ISBN 10: 0140621490 ISBN 13: 9780140621495

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 1995

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The World's best stories are retold in dynamic graphic novel form. Well known villains and heroes take new shape while staying true to their original authors. Bold cutting-edge artists create daring perspective and add excitement to adventures that range from medieval England to the pirate-haunted South Seas. These re-visioned classics will hook today's graphic novel fans and thrust them face-to-face with some of history's most famous authors. Ideal for the reluctant reader.

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Black Beauty begins life in a loving home. But his owners are forced to sell him, and Black Beauty's fortunes change. He is moved from place to place and job to job, often suffering cruel treatment and harsh conditions - until a chance encounter leads to a new turn of events.

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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 manner--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)

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