Review: I Really Wanted to Like this Classic
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 03 23, 2013
Black Beauty is a potentially wonderful story.  The  horse experiences kindness or harshness depending on who her present owner is. Happily, most of her owners are kind and she has a good life.  The mean owners make the story more realistic and believable.  The only problem is that the story's messages (Be kind to animals, Don't drink, Observe the Sabbath, etc.) are so blatant that it's annoying.  Although I agreed with all the themes, I didn't enjoy being hit repeatedly over the head with them.