Black Beauty (1877) is the classic children's book by English author Anna Sewell. A cripple for most of her life, Sewell developed an early love of horses, and the story intended to teach her readers about treating horses (and allegorically all living things) with kindness, patience and sympathy. The story is narrated first-person by Black Beauty, recounting his journey from a farm to the hard life pulling cabs in London to his eventual

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A horse in nineteenth-century England recounts his experiences with both good and bad masters.

"A teenaged girl from the big city volunteers at the local pound where an injured black horse is in jeopardy of being put down. Her overprotective father reluctantly agrees to let her adopt the horse and spend the summer in country with her Grandpa rehabilitating Black Beauty, where they each learn lessons in trust and love."--Container.

Faithfully based on Anne Sewell's classic novel, this beloved horse story is told by its hero, the gallant Beauty, whose joyous and heartbreaking life takes him from idyllic days on a country squire's estate to London's hard, cobblestoned streets, through decades of owners both kindly and harsh.