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Black Beauty / Anna Sewelll.

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Black Beauty is an 1877 novel by English author Anna Sewell. Black Beauty is one of the best-selling books of all time. While forthrightly teaching animal welfare, it also teaches how to treat people with kindness, sympathy, and respect. Black Beauty spends his youth in a loving home, surrounded by friends and cared for by his owners. But when circumstances change, he learns that not all humans are so kind. Passed from hand to hand, Black Beauty witnesses love and cruelty, wealth and poverty, friendship and hardship . . . Will the handsome horse ever find a happy and lasting home? Carefully retold in clear contemporary language, and presented with delightful illustrations, these favorite classic stories capture the heart and imagination of young readers. By retelling the story in a shorter, simpler form, these books become highly engaging for children, and the color illustrations help with both comprehension and interest level. A

Record details

  • ISBN: 0517189585
  • ISBN: 9780517189580
  • ISBN: 1403709823
  • ISBN: 9781403709820
  • Physical Description: xi, 226 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
  • Publisher: New York : Random House, 1998, c1986.
Subject: Horses > Fiction.
Animal welfare
Friends
Love and Cruelty
wealth and poverty
friendship and hardship
Genre: Classic
Fiction.
Novels.

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at scottsboropl.

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520 . ‡aBlack Beauty is an 1877 novel by English author Anna Sewell. Black Beauty is one of the best-selling books of all time. While forthrightly teaching animal welfare, it also teaches how to treat people with kindness, sympathy, and respect. Black Beauty spends his youth in a loving home, surrounded by friends and cared for by his owners. But when circumstances change, he learns that not all humans are so kind. Passed from hand to hand, Black Beauty witnesses love and cruelty, wealth and poverty, friendship and hardship . . . Will the handsome horse ever find a happy and lasting home? Carefully retold in clear contemporary language, and presented with delightful illustrations, these favorite classic stories capture the heart and imagination of young readers. By retelling the story in a shorter, simpler form, these books become highly engaging for children, and the color illustrations help with both comprehension and interest level. A
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