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 owners are kind people, who would never be cruel to a horse. But in the nineteenth century many people were cruel to their horses. Black Beauty soon finds this out, and as he describes his life, he has many terrible stories to tell.

In those days, many people whipping them and beating them, and using them like machines until they dropped dead. Now that we don't think horse is a means of transportion. Black Beauty is a tale filled with life lessons and brimming with warm memories and experiences from a horses' point of view. You may change image of horses after reading this. ( )

Black Beauty is smart hourse. I like his way of life. ( )

Intermediate-High,