This book is beautiful in a way that not many books are. I've loved it since I was ten years old, and I still love re-reading it to this day. It is a little sad in parts, but the wonderful characters and the truth of the stories they tell is so touching, it's never mattered to me.
I was fairly sure that I'd read this when I was much younger, but in my quest to read the BBC Big Read books, I thought I'd better be sure. Black Beauty was always overshadowed in my mind by The Black Stallion, which had desert islands and horseracing to hold up against a story about animal cruelty....
It has been many years since I read "Black Beauty," the book that set me on the road to my lifelong work in animal rescue and welfare. As an adult, the additional themes of caring and compassion ring throughout Sewell's text.I was especially moved by the words of Mr. Wright, one of the minor charac...
The life of a horse told from a horse’s point of view. The horse seemed to accept that his life was to be controlled by humans (he never longed for days of roaming the wild prairie, for example) but he always wished that his masters be kind. Some were. Some were not. Sewell saw lots of cruelty towar...
NOTE: I read the Kindle edition, but it refused to come up in the listing.The first time I read this book I was seven and found it a sad, but wonderful read of the life of a horse, nothing more. Rereading it yesterday, I enjoyed it from a different angle, seeing for the first time Sewell's political...
Wow it's been a long time since I read this. I think it was maybe ... six years ago, approximately? I have no idea. But I remember loving it so much. I mean, I typically hate horse books. They're always like "Once there was a little girl who wanted a horse and then she got one. The end". Black Beaut...
Important: Our sites use cookies.
We use the information stored using cookies and similar technologies for advertising and statistics purposes.
Stored data allow us to tailor the websites to individual user's interests.
Cookies may be also used by third parties cooperating with BookLikes, like advertisers, research companies and providers of multimedia applications.
You can choose how cookies are handled by your device via your browser settings.
If you choose not to receive cookies at any time, BookLikes will not function properly and certain services will not be provided.
For more information, please go to our Privacy Policy.
Log in with Facebook 
