by Anna Sewell, Alan Marks · Usborne Publishing Ltd · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780746070543
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«Black Beauty» is the children's adaptation of Anna Sewell's classic, illustrated by Alan Marks and published by Usborne in paperback (64 pages, in English).
The text adapts Anna Sewell's classic and follows Black Beauty, a horse who passes from one owner to another and discovers that humans can be kind or cruel. Told from the horse's point of view, the story shows the mistreatment suffered by many working animals and advocates respectful treatment towards them.
It is number 3.2 in the Usborne Young Reading Series Two collection (blue series), with text adapted by Mary Sebag-Montefiore. This edition was published in 2005.
Aimed at children aged 6 to 9 who are beginning to read longer stories independently.
Anna Sewell was an English novelist who is known for her only book, Black Beauty, a novel about a horse. She was born into a Quaker family in Norfolk and moved to London as a baby. Her mother, Mary Wright Sewell, was the author of popular children's books. Sewell never married and always lived with her parents, in Sussex, Gloucestershire and Norfolk. A chronic illness left her leading a life of invalidism, with trips to spa resorts in England and continental Europe. She joined her mother in carrying out charitable work and also edited her mother's books. Black Beauty was written between 1871 and 1877 and published a few months before Sewell's death.
