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Title: Black Beauty by Domenick D'Andrea, Cathy East Dubowski ISBN: 0-679-80370-X Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers Pub. Date: 18 August, 1990 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $3.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.52 (102 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: a great book about a horses life
Comment: Black Beauty is a great book about a horse and his life. from good masters to bad, happy moments to sad, this book tells it all. I couldn't stop reading it!!! This is a fantastic book that all horse lovers will like.
Rating: 5
Summary: A Memorable Children's Novel with Important Values
Comment: We often talk about teaching children values, but in most cases children's literature is insipid and of no lasting value. BLACK BEAUTY, however, is both valuable as art and valuable for the virtues it teaches: kindness, common sense, and helping those who cannot help themselves. The book is well written in clean prose. It does not over reach the "reading child," nor does it talk down to him. And although it is touching and occasionally sad, it is not in the least sentimental.
The story, of course, is about Black Beauty, a handsome horse who is born and raised in happy circumstances. But in Victorian England horses were used much as we use cars today: they were things to be bought and sold and then gotten rid of when they were no longer useful. Black Beauty is first sold to a good home, but as time passes he is sold again and again--and not always to people who treat him kindly or even to those who give him common care.
There are adventures aplenty, like a stable fire and a dangerous bridge; there are many memorable characters, like the horse Ginger and the kind cabbie Jerry. All of them are seen from Black Beauty's point of view, and beautifully, perfectly described. My mother read this book to me, and as soon as I could I was anxious to read it myself; now, some thirty years later I have stumbled once more upon it. And I can honestly say that it lives up to my memory: it is a fine book, and one that every parent should place in the hands of their children. Strongly recommended.
GFT, Amazon Reviewer
Rating: 5
Summary: Incredible
Comment: I first read this book a long time ago - frankly, I don't remember when. It has been several years since then, but it touched me all the same. Currently, I am in the process of re-reading it. That's how good it is! You will want to read it over and over.
It begins with Black Beauty as a young colt, born into a good bloodline with racing blood running through his veins. His master was a good one and made sure that the horse became an obedient, noble steed. Unlike many other horses, he was broken in gently to insure years of the loyal service of a beautiful animal.
Unfortunately, Black Beauty's life is not all good; like any other horse, he came into the hands of both kind, cold, and simply ignorant masters. Though fiction, it really could've been any horse that went through the life of Black Beauty, and some probably did. At least, horses lived the lives of some in the book, such as those abused or beaten for doing things natural to a horse.
This novel was most definately touching and inspiring. It presented several important moral issues. A few include always doing your best, how to NOT "look out for number one,". and thoughts on how kindness can change a horse... and a person too.
Of course, I am somewhat biased, being a Horse in the Chinese Zodiac and a special fan of stories about horses, but all the same - I have taken many of the themes in this book to heart, and truly believe that the world might be a bit nicer if a few others picked up this classic tale of a horse's journey though the harsh reality of life.
Read it once! If you don't like it, then that's understandable, I guess.
But chances are, you'll love it.
And then you'll want to read it again.
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Title: Heidi by Johanna Spyri ISBN: 0517189674 Publisher: Gramercy Pub. Date: 01 September, 1998 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett, Tasha Tudor ISBN: 006440188X Publisher: HarperTrophy Pub. Date: 30 April, 1998 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery ISBN: 0517189682 Publisher: Gramercy Pub. Date: 01 September, 1998 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Little Women by Louisa May Alcott, Ann M. Magagna, Louis Jambour, Louis Jambor ISBN: 0448060191 Publisher: Price Stern Sloan Pub Pub. Date: June, 1983 List Price(USD): $19.99 |
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Title: The Black Stallion by Walter Farley ISBN: 0679813438 Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers Pub. Date: 20 August, 1991 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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