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  • Published: 12 December 2000
  • ISBN: 9780440416456
  • Imprint: RHUS Children's Books
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 240
  • RRP: $14.99

Black Beauty




Puffin Graphics Plus: the graphic novel and the original classic text side by side in one complete volume!

Black Beauty's story, as told by himself, is the fascinating tale of the life of a horse a hundred years ago, when horses were a part of daily life.

Although his early colthood is happy, Black Beauty later tastes the bitterness of cruel handlers and indifferent masters as he passes from hand to hand, progressing from the country to London and back again.

This, the most famous horse story ever written, is a must on everyone's reading list.

  • Published: 12 December 2000
  • ISBN: 9780440416456
  • Imprint: RHUS Children's Books
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 240
  • RRP: $14.99

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Anna Sewell

Anna Sewell was born in 1820 and lived with her family in Norfolk and then in a village on the outskirts of London. At the age of fourteen Anna injured her ankles in a fall, and was severely disabled for the rest of her life. She had to travel everywhere in horse-drawn carriages, and so Anna was always concerned with the treatment of the animals she so relied upon. She wrote Black Beauty in order to convince a wide audience of the importance of the humane treatment of animals. It is her only novel, and Anna Sewell died shortly after it's publication, little guessing how well-known and widely loved her story would become.

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