Title: Black Beauty
Description: (Ages 9-12, Gr. 4-7) An **animal rights classic** that's also an engaging read, **BLACK BEAUTY follows the life of an ebony horse from birth to old age**, and from pasture to the cobblestone streets of **19th century England** This morality tale and **animal "autobiography"** gives a sweet and kind horse **a voice that's relatable yet unsentimental.**. Black Beauty's life begins on the grounds of an aristocratic English family. The **young horse learns early lessons from his mother like how not to bite or kick even in play** before circumstances force his sale to a new master; it's the first of several such sales/moves for the horse. As **his life intersects with different human owners, caretakers, and neighbors**, Black Beauty **experiences different kinds of care and abuse**, and he observes the **differing attitudes of humans toward horses.** Peppered throughout the novel are the **moral lessons** that the author, **Anna Sewell **who is the author**, wants to impart to her readers:** that **truly good humans are kind to all of God's creatures,** that **parents should teach their children to be kind to animals,** and perhaps most important, that **even though they can't speak, horses can feel so that makes this fiction/fake.** Anna Sewell was a devout Quaker, and that is apparent in her pacifist point of view, and in the book's **emphasis on the value of hard work without complaint.**


**strong text** author: a person who wrote the book
Subjects: Black Beauty, Anna Sewell, Original publication 1877, 19th Century, Children, Children's, Kids, Juvenile, Classic, Fiction, Books, Stories, Drama, Biography, History, Legends, Animals, Classic Literature, Juvenile Literature, Animals - Horses, Horses, Animal rights, Humane treatment, Kindness, Gentleness, Goodness & cruelty, Morals, Morality, Children's fiction, Horses, fiction, England, fiction, Animals, treatment, fiction, Juvenile fiction, Folklore, Specimens, Toy and movable books, Juvenile sound recordings, Black Beauty (Fictitious character), High interest-low vocabulary books, Easy reading materials, Child and youth fiction, Fiction, historical, Great britain, fiction, Readers, Fairy tales, Adventure and adventurers, fiction, Fiction, romance, general, Adaptations, Comic books, strips, Graphic novels, Animal welfare, Social conditions, Treatment, Literature and fiction, juvenile, Chevaux, Romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse, New england, fiction, Legends and stories
Places: Great Britain, Horses
Time periods: 1877