Real life
Black Beauty
Author Anna Sewell
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Story
When Black Beauty’s story begins, he is a carefree colt who lives on a farm with his mother. But all that changes when he is sold to a cruel new master and becomes a cab-horse in London, forced to pull carriages all day long. Despite his hardships, Black Beauty tries his best to remain gentle, kind and hopeful, and along the way he teaches us that animals deserve to be treated kindly just as much as humans.
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Why we chose it
A classic animal story—one of the first major works in children's literature to feature an animal narrator.
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First published
1877, Jarrold and Son Ltd, Norwich, UK