Black Beauty (Dover Juvenile Classics)

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Description: 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 way--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)

Genre: Classic fiction; Fiction; Children's Books/Ages 9-12 Fiction; Children: Grades 2-3; Classics; Juvenile Fiction / General; Horses; Juvenile Fiction;

Average Review: 4.5 stars

Review: Behind Black Beauty : Black Beauty is a classic novel told through the eyes of a horse. Black Beauty's story is one of happy times, cruel owners, a frightning fire, and how some speical people can bond with animals. The book takes you from Black Beautys foalhood, through his training, being sold and resold untll he finds a home for keeps. This book teaches the virtue of being strong throug misundestandings, and bad times alike. But under the first artfully crafted layer of the story comes another meaning. This book is about british society, with its flaws and good parts too. Black Beauty, not geting to pick who he is sold to, is bought by people from all over the range of social status. He finds that the rich aren't always good nor the poor bad. When he finnally finds the right home though, he just knows.