| ISBN |
9780194791663 paperback |
| Name |
Escott, John author. |
| Title |
Black Beauty / retold by John Escott ; illustrated by Sally Wern Comport ; [created by Anna Sewell] |
| Edition |
Adapted and simplified edition. |
| Published |
Oxford, UK : Oxford University Press, 2008. |
| ©2008 |
| Description |
88 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm |
| Notes |
"Word count (main text): 15,400 words." -- Verso. |
| Includes comprehensive questions and activities. |
| Contents |
My first home -- Birtwick Park -- Ginger's story -- Kindness and cruelty -- The storm -- The fire -- Joe Green -- Earlshall Park -- The accident and new masters -- A London cab horse -- Goodbye to old friends -- Hard times -- My last home. |
| Summary |
"When Black Beauty is trained to carry a rider on his back, or to pull a carriage behind him, he finds it hard at first. But he is lucky - his first home is a good one, where his owners are kind people, who would never be cruel to a horse. But in the nineteenth century many people were cruel to their horses, whipping them and beating them, and using them like machines until they dropped dead. Black Beauty soon finds this out, and as he describes his life, he has many terrible stories to tell."--Publisher. |
| Target audience note |
Intermediate. |
| Reading Program Note |
Stage 4. 1400 headwords. |
| Subjects |
Black Beauty, (Fictitious character) Fiction |
| Horses -- Fiction |
| English language -- Textbooks for foreign speakers |
| Reading comprehension -- Problems, exercises, etc |
| Readers for new literates |
| Readers (Adult) |
| Great Britain -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction |
| Genre |
Animal stories |
| Horse stories |
| Readers (Publications) |
| Easy to read (green : intermediate) |
| Other Names |
Sewell, Anna, 1820-1878 creator. |
| Series |
Oxford bookworms library. Human interest. Stage 4 |
| Oxford bookworms library. Stage 4 |
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