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Story of Black Beauty


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No. of pages 24

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Great for age 3-6 years
When the young horse Black Beauty is sold, he has no idea of the hardships he is about to face. A moving series of tales of cruelty and kindness across the rolling hills of the English countryside and the narrow cobbled streets of London.

 

This book is part of a book series called Picture Books .

There are 24 pages in this book. This is a picture book. A picture book uses pictures and text to tell the story. The number of words varies from zero ('wordless') to around 1k over 32 pages. Picture books are typically aimed at young readers (age 3-6) but can also be aimed at older children (7+). This book was published 2013 by Usborne Publishing Ltd .

Alan Marks is widely published and has illustrated many books. He is also a 'Smarties Prize' prize winner.

This book contains the following story:

Black Beauty
When he comes of age, the horse Black Beauty is sold to a grand house to be a carriage horse. The groom, Joe, is kind but his masters are cruel. Every day Beauty and his fellow horse, Ginger, are shackled to the carriage with a tight bearing rein to keep their heads held high, and the two horses are whipped and generally mistreated. When Ginger misbehaves she is taken away. When Beauty smashes his knee he is sold to a London cabby. Pulling a cab through all the weather is hard work but Jerry is kind to Beauty and he is happy. Then Jerry is offered a job as groom by a customer and has to sell Beauty. His next master is harsh and cruel. But then Black Beauty is rescued by a horse doctor and at the doctors stables he discovers that the groom is none other than Joe. Beauty lives out the rest of his life in the doctors fields, happy and cared for.

This book is in the following series:

Picture Books

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