A retelling of Anna Sewell's classic adventure story of Black Beauty as he starts life carefree in the field with his mother, and is then sold from owner to owner. Will he survive as his treatment gets worse and worse, and will he ever find an owner worthy of his unending loyalty?
Sapphire/Band 16 books offer longer reads to develop children's sustained engagement with texts and are more complex syntactically.
Text type: A classic story
Curriculum links: English: fiction from the English literary heritage
This book has been quizzed for Accelerated Reader.
| ISBN: | 9780008147297 |
| Publication date: | 5th January 2016 |
| Author: | Sue Purkiss |
| Illustrator: | Kathryn Baker |
| Publisher: | Collins an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 56 pages |
| Series: | Collins Big Cat |
| Genres: |
Children’s / Teenage fiction: Biographical fiction / autobiographical stories Reading Scheme Classic Literature Adventure Stories Animal Stories Historical Fiction |