Scholastic Children's Books are proud to publish this
beautiful edition of the classic tale, Black Beauty.
Black Beauty is a young black colt and loves roaming Farmer Gray's
fields with his mother.
As Black Beauty grows into a handsome stallion, he is trained
into the use of a saddle and whip and sold to Squire Gordon of Birtwick
Hall.
Here, he makes many friends including the angry Ginger, the well-meaning
Merrylegs and the elderly Sir Oliver, as well as stablehands
James and John.
When Squire Gordon has to move abroad to improve his wife's ill
health, Black Beauty is sold again to Earlshall Park.
So begins a hard and unsettled life for Black Beauty who is always
at the whim of his human owners.
Often he is whipped and made to wear blinkers or the bearing rein,
at other times he must work as a cab horse on the busy London
streets.
Will Black Beauty ever be able to roam the fields again as he
did in his childhood? What has become of his friends Ginger and Merrylegs?
Rediscover Anna Sewell's moving tale of the hardships of
being an animal in a human world with Scholastic's classic edition.
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A Christmas Carol
A Little Princess
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Anne Of Green Gables
Black Beauty
Five Children and It
Just So Stories
Kidnapped
Little Women
Moonfleet
Oliver Twist
Pollyanna
The Happy Prince and Other Stories
The Jungle Book
The Railway Children
The Secret Garden
The Wind in the Willows
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
Treasure Island
What Katy Did
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Anna Sewell was born in 1820 in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England. At the age of fourteen she injured both of her ankles in an accident, which meant that she could never walk properly again. Because of this she relied heavily on travelling in horse-drawn carriages, and it was from here that her love of horses grew. In 1871 Anna be
