Search Type
  • All
  • Subject
  • Title
  • Author
  • Publisher
  • Series Title
Search Title

Download

Black Beauty

Black Beauty( )
Original Author: Sewell, Anna
Adapted by: Hickey, Caroline
Illustrator: Martinez, Teresa
Series title:Classic Adventures Ser.
ISBN:978-1-946260-20-8
Publication Date:Feb 2022
Publisher:Starry Forest Books, Inc.
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:USD $7.99
Book Description:

See the world through the eyes of one of literature's most memorable horses in Black Beauty, now written with young readers in mind!

Life is easy and carefree for a handsome colt in the countryside. Black Beauty and his mother are well taken care of. But when his kind masters must sell him, the young horse is whisked off to the city, where he must face a new set of challenges as a working animal.

As the harsh life of the city takes its toll, Black Beauty...
More Description

Book Details
Pages:64
Detailed Subjects: Juvenile Fiction / General
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):5.928 x 7.917 Inches
Author Biography
(Original Author)
Anna Sewell, March 30, 1820 - April 25, 1878 Anna Sewell was on March 30, 1820 in Yarmouth, Norfolk, England. She was raised a Quaker by her father a bank manager and her mother, a children's novelist. At the age of fourteen, Sewell hurt her knee during a fall and the injury never healed right. Even though she could not walk well, she could still ride horses and drive a horse drawn buggy. It was this form of freedom that sparked her concern for the welfare of horses.

She wrote "Black Beauty" when she was in her fifties, but died a year after it was published in 1877. While she never earned much from the book while she was alive, after her death, the novel snowballed into a something extraordinary. The book was about the abuses horses sustained in their lifetimes, but was told from the unique viewpoint of the horse. Even though the book was intended for children, it impacted all generations and caused everyone who read it to take a look at the inhumane treatment horses received. In the one hundred plus years since "Black Beauty" had been published, over 30 million copies have been printed. At least eight motion pictures have been made based on the novel and it is a well known children's classic.

Anna Sewell died on April 25, 1878 in Old Catton, Norfolk.

030



Featured Books

The Great Gatsby
Fitzgerald, F. Scott
Paperback: $12.99
Legacy
Blackstock, Uché
Hardback: $28.00
Without a Map
Hall, Meredith
Paperback: $17.95

Rate this title:

Select your rating below then click 'submit'.






I do not wish to rate this title.