Beautiful Joe
Author: first_name: Marshall
last_name: Saunders
Language: English
Year: 1893

In Margaret Marshall Saunders’s classic children’s novel, Beautiful Joe tells his story of abuse, neglect and of the eventual rescue of a mutilated mongrel dog. "While it was not the first book to tell a story from an animal's viewpoint – Black Beauty by Anna Sewell was already on its way to becoming classic literature by then – it was still an uncommon narrative device…[that] allowed the reader into Beautiful Joe's mind, and inarguably led the reader to feel more sympathy toward the narrator…”