Review of
Black
Beauty: New Age Graphic Novel, by Anna Sewell ISBN
0883010941
Five out of five stars
This story is a
classic and it is fitting that this version is designed to be assigned as a classroom
project. There is a foreword directed at the teacher as well as discussion
questions at the end. It is both a history lesson of the time when horses were
the main source of transportation and a presentation of the inclination of some
to commit animal cruelty. There are ways to get animals to perform well that involve
proper care versus exploitation.
The visual
nature of this abridgement provides an incentive for students to read the book
without any significant loss of the theme of the story. Black Beauty and his
fellow horses are presented as feeling, knowing beings rather than as simple
draft animals and I strongly recommend this book for all K-12 academic
libraries as well as personal libraries for children with a heart for animals.
No comments:
Post a Comment