Black Beauty
retold in words of one syllable
About this book
* A horse of nineteenth century England tells his life story from his early home through many masters and experiences, both good and bad.
* About the author Anna Sewell was a kind and generous woman whose great love for horses and desire to see them better treated resulted in the most celebrated animal story of the nineteenth century. Born into a strict Quaker family who lived at Great Yarmouth in Norfolk, she was brought up to believe in the importance of self-reliance, moral responsibility and 'tender consideration for the Creatures of God'. From an early age she developed a strong love of animals and abhorred any form of cruelty towards them. She seemed to have a natural affinity with horses, and the great knowledge of horsemanship evident in Black Beauty was born from a lifetime's experience. Read more at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Sewell
Subjects
- 1955
- animals
- animals, treatment, fiction
- black beauty
- black beauty (fictitious character)
- children's fiction
- england
- england, fiction
- english literature: literary criticism
- fiction
- folklore
- great britain
- great britain, history, 19th century, fiction
- history
- horses
- horses, fiction
- horses, juvenile literature
- juvenile fiction
- juvenile literature
- legends and stories
- publishing
- stories
- treatment
- whitman