stevenk 's review for:

Black Beauty by Anna Sewell

4.0

---

An entertaining children's book with a message of understanding and kindness to animals and the less fortunate. Black Beauty serves as a guide through Victorian era London and the lives and uses of horses during those times. Black Beauty lives at all levels of society and has a varied life that lets the author address many of the different types of mistreatment that horses went through. Beauty and his equestrian and human friends bring real emotion to seemingly mundane issues such as stable management and the lives of cab horses and their drivers. While a modern reader will not experience much of what Beauty describes this book was still had a good message of consideration to all animals and provided a glimpse into the lives of Victorian horses.