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    <body><![CDATA[I revisited this classic horse story not knowing what to expect, really. I have found that I can't really trust my childhood memories. In this case, however, the years made no difference. The odd thing I noticed while reading this book was how completely I'd internalized the messages regarding anima...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11040020">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The Victorian period saw a dramatic rise in the middle class and in the leisure time that this new class had to spend on themselves and their causes. Childhood became more important to the middle class and so the first flowering of children's books, a genre that has prospered up until our own time. ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19615783">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[This new series of Bookworms offers younger readers the chance to enjoy lively and accessible adaptations of the best classic and modern fiction. Each title is highly illustrated to engage the reader in the world of the book and help with specific vocabulary. Accompanying exercises make all  these titles suitable for use in class or at home.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Ah, the Victorians!  I had no idea that this book wasn't in fact a cute story about a horse, but actually a treatise on animal cruelty.  So there I was, reading this book aloud to my three-year-old, and skimming over things like horses being beaten to death or just whipped until blood is dripping in...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17397072">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[One of my all time favourite classic. It comes out from the horse's mouth literally. Transports one to get a glimpse of the lives of horses,their agonies and feelings that creates a feeling of pity towards them. While humans undergo suffering,the animals are a step further in this aspect and certain...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3632863">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I would like to swap this book!<br/><br/>I really liked this book! It tells about a horse called: Black Beauty that will have an amazing adventure through his life!<br/><br/>Read the book to know his adventure!<br/><br/><br/><br/>                             <br/> ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[No book review by a horse loving reader would be complete without this childrens classice. I still have my copy after what must be 50 years.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[  Don't write this off as a horse-loving girl story.<br/>  Black Beauty delves into the cruel and unregulated treatment of horses during its time period.  I like to think that this story inspired better laws regarding animal cruelty.<br/>  It is not simply a story with an agenda.  It is a good sto...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7670308">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book has crowned my living room bookshelf for several years and it can never be replaced. The story, told from the point of view of a sweet and carefree horse, wraps you up in an adventure that will leave you tingling. The detail, the story line, the exquisite charm that this book radiates, all...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/29607652">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this at the same time as my 9 year old, and we both truly enjoyed it.  Besides a great, touching story that is well-written and from an unusual point of view, this novel addresses important issues that I was able to discuss with my son:  treatment of animals, keeping the Sabbath, kindness ver...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/30057139">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[&lt;div&gt;The illustrations for this series were created by Scott McKowen, who, with his wife Christina Poddubiuk, operates Punch &amp; Judy Inc., a company specializing in design and illustration for theater and performing arts. Their projects often involve research into the visual aspects of historical settings and characters. Christina is a theater set and costume designer and contributed advice on the period clothing for the illustrations.<br/><br/>Scott created these drawings in scratchboard ­ an engraving medium which evokes the look of popular art from the period of these stories. Scratchboard is an illustration board with a specifically prepared surface of hard white chalk. A thin layer of black ink is rolled over the surface, and lines are drawn by hand with a sharp knife by scraping through the ink layer to expose the white surface underneath. The finished drawings are then scanned and the color is added digitally.<br/><br/>Every child loves a story about a horse, and Black Beauty remains one of the finest, most touching ever written. Set in Victorian London, the novel follows the shifting fortunes of a horse as he moves from owner to owner. Narrated by the noble Black Beauty himself, the tale offers an animal&#8217;s perspective of the world, and highlights the thoughtless, even cruel treatment animals endured during that period.<br/>&lt;/div&gt;]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Words can not describe the beauty and atmosphere of Anna Sewell's &quot;Black Beauty&quot;. This classic follows the story of the remarkable Black Beauty, who spent his whole life working almost non-stop for the sake of his one-too-many masters. Injured by one, cared for by another, Black Beauty has...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73347592">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A person cannot read this and over think of animals as some dumb creatures ever again. This was one of the most unusual stories I ever read as a kid, since the point of the view was from the horse. The life span of Black Beauty ran through good masters and bad, and he tried to be the best for his go...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/68380352">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[A horse is a horse of course unless of course the horse is Black Beauty. Animal-loving children have been devoted to <em>Black Beauty</em> throughout this century, and no doubt will continue through the next. Although Anna Sewell's classic paints a clear picture of turn-of-the-century London, its message is universal and timeless: animals will serve humans well if they are treated with consideration and kindness.<p> <em>Black Beauty</em> tells the story of the horse's own long and varied life, from a well-born colt in a pleasant meadow to an elegant carriage horse for a gentleman to a painfully overworked cab horse. Throughout, Sewell rails&#151;in a gentle, 19th-century way&#151;against animal maltreatment. Young readers will follow Black Beauty's fortunes, good and bad, with gentle masters as well as cruel. Children can easily make the leap from horse-human relationships to human-human relationships, and begin to understand how their own consideration of others may be a benefit to all. <em>(Ages 9 to 12)</em></p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Advantages: Beautiful story<br/>Disadvantages: Sentimental account<br/><br/>I have always been verging on the obsessed when it comes to horses. Growing up, if a book featured horses and ponies I'd devour it. I was also fanatical about horse welfare, indignant about horses being transported live t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64981347">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Black Beauty is a handsome, sweet-tempered colt with a strong spirit. As a young colt he is free to gallop in the fresh green meadows with his beloved mother, Duchess, and their kind master. But when his owners are forced to sell him, Black Beauty goes from a life of comfort and kindness to one of hard labour and cruelty. Bravely he works as hard as he can, suffering at the hands of men who treat animals badly. But Black Beauty has an unbreakable spirit and will, and is determined to survive...With a wonderful introduction by award-winning author Meg Rosoff, &quot;Black Beauty&quot; is one of the twelve best-loved classic stories being launched in the newly branded &quot;Puffin Classics&quot; series in March 2008.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Oh, this is such a sweet book and has left me sighing with satisfaction at the end.<br/><br/>I have never read <em> Black Beauty </em> until now. As a child I was never a girly girl and was never into horses or ponies at all and subsequently never had any desire to read this book. I wanted to read about <em> T...</em><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47031449">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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