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Black Beauty
Black Beauty | Anna Sewell
176 posts | 296 read | 7 reading | 43 to read
A horse in nineteenth-century England encounters many misfortunes until he finds the happiness and contentment he deserves.
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TheBookgeekFrau
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So glad I finally read this 😊

77/62

#MountTBR #ReadAway2024

DieAReader 🥳🥳🥳 2mo
TheBookgeekFrau @DieAReader 😊💞😊 2mo
TheBookHippie I love this book. 2mo
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PaperbackPirate Such a good one! 🖤🐴 2mo
AuthorDeniseTurney Talk about a classic read
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TheBookgeekFrau @AuthorDeniseTurney Can't believe I had never read it, and I was a horse girl for Pete's sake 😂 4w
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TheBookgeekFrau
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"The first place that I can well remember was a large pleasant meadow with a pond of clear water in it."

#FirstLineFridays
@ShyBookOwl

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TheBookgeekFrau
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When I read The Eighty-Dollar Champion, last month, there was mention of the how and why Black Beauty came to be written. I decided it was finally time to read this book I've had since I was about 8.

MaleficentBookDragon I loved this book as a child. I wonder how I‘d feel about it as an adult. Maybe it‘s time for a reread. (edited) 2mo
TheBookgeekFrau @MaleficentBookDragon I learned that it was originally written for adults to highlight and warn against the abuse of work horses. From that the ASPCA was born to protect their well-being. 2mo
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AroundTheBookWorld
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My troubles are all over, and I am at home; and often before I am quite awake, I fancy I am still in the orchard at Birtwick, standing with my old friends under the Apple trees.
#BlackBeauty #AnnaSewell #lastline #closingline #book #books #bookstack #bookstacks #bookshop #bookshops #bookshopping #booksale #bookstore #stack #stacks #bookshopper #bookdesign #Classics #Fiction #Childrens #Animals #YoungAdult #Horses #HistoricalFiction #Adventure 🩷🩷

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PurpleyPumpkin
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One of my favourite childhood books. I‘ve reread it as an adult and can confirm it‘s still a favourite read!
#CoverLove #horse

TheBookHippie I love this book so much. 6mo
Eggs Me too 🩷🐎🩵 6mo
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Leftcoastzen
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#CoverLove #Horse Gifted to me yesterday, from a dear friend. This copy belonged to her mother.

wanderinglynn How lovely! 6mo
Eggs So pretty and special! 6mo
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks What a treasure 🐎❤️ 6mo
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youneverarrived So nice ♥️ 6mo
Susanita What a treasure. 6mo
LeahBergen I love it! 6mo
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Susanita
Black Beauty | Anna Sewell
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Such a brave and handsome #horse for today‘s #coverlove

Eggs Love this book 🐎 6mo
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TheSpineView
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Eggs Excellent 👌🏼 9mo
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AroundTheBookWorld
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julesG Still practiced today in some (university) libraries, because the expensive reference books are misplaced otherwise. 12mo
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Eggs
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Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks 🐎 📚💙 1y
willaful This is a great one! 1y
Eggs @willaful Yes🙌🏻🙌🏻 1y
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Leftcoastzen
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#BookBinge #InvolvesAnimal A classic I read so many times in my youth. I also remember my grandfather having a minor obsession with black horses and “difficult “ horses.

TheSpineView 🖤🐎 1y
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Perfect 🐎 1y
Eggs LOVE Black Beauty 🐎 1y
Suet624 Loved this book. Rather than being a Barbie girl I was a horse girl. So many Breyer horses! 1y
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JuliaTheBookNerd
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#DarkHorse 🐎🖤 #VolumesAndVocals 🎶🌞🌈🌼

#BookNerd 🤓📚💙

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Love your shelves 🖤 2y
JuliaTheBookNerd @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Thanks 😊 I‘m pretty partial to them too 🥰 2y
Eggs Perfect 🐎 2y
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VioletMoonBooks
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The first place that I can well remember was a large pleasant meadow with a pond of clear water in it. Some shady trees leaned over it, and rushes and water-lilies grew at the deep end.
#BlackBeauty #AnnaSewell #firstline #openingline #book #books #bookshelf #bookshelves #bookshelfie #bookshelfies #shelfie #shelfies #bookstack #bookstacks #stack #stacks #Classics #Fiction #Childrens #Animals #YoungAdult #Horses #HistoricalFiction #Adventure 💜💜💜

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JoeMo
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Panpan

I finally made it through this miserable slog of a book. For all of the important messages it tries to convey to young readers, I‘m sure there are better books, stories, and documentaries that would engage with young people more about the humane treatment of animals. In this volume, Sewell is just too brutally redundant with her points and I didn‘t really need to read a book that was 95% about an animal being tortured.

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Roary47
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5✨ Why did I not read this book sooner! I love a good horse book and this classic is amazing. I like that the horse is the narrator of the story and he goes through a lot of ups and downs that a horse in this era may go through. My copy is also gorgeous with gold edges, beautiful illustrations, and just all around amazing.

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Roary47
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Eggs Perfection! Love Black Beauty! 2y
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aperfectmjk
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Mehso-so

First book finished for #trappedonanisland. Sad to report this was not a homerun for me. I never was one of those little girls that wanted a pony or was into horses, so maybe that's why. Also didn't much care for the narrator with this one. It sounded like an elderly lady, and she just didn't portray the character well.

#bookspinbingo @TheAromaofBooks

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! At least it's another classic off the backlog list!! 2y
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TheAromaofBooks
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@aperfectmjk - here are the books that washed up on the shore with you!! These are all books I've enjoyed, although for entirely different reasons haha Looking forward to hearing your thoughts on at least one of them!!!

#TrappedonanIsland

aperfectmjk Thanks @TheAromaofBooks I can't wait to knock some of these off my TBR... I've been trying for years! 🤣 2y
mom2bugnbee Great choices! 2y
TheAromaofBooks @aperfectmjk - I know that feeling!!! 😅 2y
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JuliaTheBookNerd
Black Beauty | Anna Sewell
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#ILoveHorsesDay 🐎 #JulyJam 🪷🌱🌹

#BookNerd 🤓💙📚

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Pretty cover 🐴 2y
Eggs Loved this book🖤❤️🖤 2y
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Susanita
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1. I‘ve read a few.
2. Old school choice!
#two4tuesday

TheSpineView I loved Black Beauty and hope or never goes out of style. Thanks for playing! 2y
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TheKidUpstairs
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#OnThisDay in 1820 English author Anna Sewell was born. She only published one novel, intended for adult readers, but that one story engaged the minds of countless children. It's full title was "Black Beauty, his grooms and companions; the autobiography of a horse, 'Translated from the original equine by Anna Sewell.'" One of the ten top selling novels for children of all time, Sewell never got to see its success. #HistoryGetsLIT

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VioletMoonBooks
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My troubles are all over, and I am at home; and often before I am quite awake, I fancy I am still in the orchard at Birtwick, standing with my old friends under the apple trees.
#BlackBeauty #AnnaSewell #lastline #closingline #book #books #bookshelf #bookshelves #bookshelfie #bookshelfies #shelfie #shelfies #bookstack #bookstacks #stack #stacks #bookstore #bookshop #bookshopper #bookshopping #booksale #Classics #Fiction #Childrens #Animals 🧡🧡🧡

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LiseWorks
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Jan 26 #BeginsWith Black I read this as a teen, many many years ago. My favorite classic ever @Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Perfect 🐴 🖤 3y
Eggs Great choice! 3y
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SusanLee
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#beginswith #black @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Eggs
Google reminded me of this awesome book!

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Pretty 🐴 💚🖤 3y
Eggs Love this story 3y
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Honeybeebooks
Black Beauty | Anna Sewell
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Mehso-so

This pretty little edition of Black Beauty was given to me as a gift. I loved The Black Stallion as a child but could never get through BB or National Velvet. I bailed a few times on this one too and finally switched to audio to finish it. Much easier to believe in a horse that spoke such proper English that way! Definitely little to uplift your spirit. Much of it was just a bummer. It‘s a classic but not for me. 3⭐️s

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tjwill
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#currentlyreading with my daughter (10 yo)—isn‘t this a beautiful edition?

Leftcoastzen So pretty! 3y
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rockpools
Black Beauty | Sewell Anna
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#ForTheLoveOfBookmarks #Advertising

Here are a few - I should probably skim through the rest of the prompts, so I don‘t use up all my bookmarks in one go!

Clockwise from bottom left - British Red Cross, The good Immigrant/Unbound, a British Library maps exhibition, Schloss Neuschwanstein, Wordery x2, a performance of Black Beauty at the Traverse Theatre in Edinburgh and something that I‘m fairly sure has come from Newfoundland Tourist board.

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Addison_Reads
Black Beauty | Anna Sewell
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Thank you @TheSpineView and @MegaWhoppingCosmicBookwyrm for the tag! 😁 and thank you @Eggs for always having fun questions.

1. My events would probably be Baby Jessica falling down the well, and the murder of James Byrd, Jr. in Jasper, TX. Knowing that hate like that existed so close to my hometown opened my eyes to a lot of injustices I never noticed before.

2. Library 📚

3. The tagged book, Little Women, and Winnie the Pooh. 💚

MegaWhoppingCosmicBookwyrm I‘m reading Black Beauty right now!! ❤️😱 3y
Addison_Reads @MegaWhoppingCosmicBookwyrm I did a reread earlier this year. That book still makes me cry. 😭 3y
Eggs Oh I do remember the Jessica/well story-I had a baby and a toddler at the time and I couldn‘t imagine how hard that must have been for everyone 😭 3y
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AshRaye
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Pickpick

I was amazed about all of the little life lessons mixed in among these pages. There was a lot to think about. Many people would say this is a cute children's book, but I think adults need to read it as well. It is a beautiful classic for everyone to cherish.

AkashaVampie By any chance is that a B&N exclusive??? 3y
AshRaye @AkashaVampie It's Easton Press 3y
AkashaVampie @AshRaye oh ok. Thanks 3y
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AshRaye
Black Beauty | Anna Sewell

"If we see cruelty or wrong that we have the power to stop, and do nothing, we make ourselves sharers in the guilt."

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AshRaye
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My reading spot for today. A storm is supposed to roll through in an hour, but I am already starting to hear some thunder.
I am hoping to be able to finish the tagged book today.

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AshRaye
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Starting this gorgeous book while on vacation at my grandma's house. I must say, I am so jealous of how beautiful this book is.

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Susanita
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I read this for a book club and wondered why I‘d never read it as a child. #horse #curiouscovers

Friday update! I enjoyed my iced coffee while watching Harry Potter, then I took a walk in the neighborhood, then I prevailed on my hubby to make me a grilled cheese sandwich for my dinner. 😎

Eggs Happy weekend 🍞🧀!! Love Black Beauty 🖤🐎🖤 4y
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Tera66
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#Curiouscovers #Horse
@Eggs & @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
Been a long time, but I remember loving it as a kid.🖤

CrowCAH One of my favorites! 🐎 4y
Tera66 @CrowCAH It's been so long. I may reread it🐎 4y
Eggs One of my favorites too 💚🐎🖤 4y
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persephone1408
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#curiouscovers
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
@Eggs
Day 4: Horse
You wouldn't believe how hard it was to find a horse in my books lol I have pegasus', lions & dragons. (You wouldn't believe how many) So I went online & got Black Beauty, a book I don't own but I read it in high school. 🖤🐴

Eggs A classic! 🖤🐎🖤 4y
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Blackink_WhitePaper
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In love with this book. I m reading this for the first time thanks to @TheBookHippie #childrenclassicread2021 must read for both kids and adults.

Suet624 ❤️❤️❤️ I‘m so glad people are reading this book again. 4y
TheBookHippie It‘s so good!!!! 🤍🤍🤍 4y
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missgravesy30
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Pickpick

This was one of my favourite books when I was younger.
And reading it while I'm older, its still a brilliant book.
I love the writing style with the P.O.V coming from black beauty. You feel like you're watching his life unfold from the side lines. While reading I was transported to 19th century England, and while it's just a story, its horrible to know the horrors that some horses went through.
This book will always remain one of my favourites.

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batsy
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I'm so glad I read this for #ChildrensClassicRead2021. For some reason I long thought this was a cute but cheesy tale about a horse horsing about, but the book was much darker & more thoughtful than that. Sewell clearly wrote this as a stark reminder of animal abuse & the severe treatment of horses in almost all aspects of society: farming, transportation, sport. The perspective of the horse worked so well & Beauty's "voice" was just perfect.

batsy I felt an ache for Beauty's friends who did not live to see a happy ending, but I was glad that Beauty got his. It's a book for children, but let's be real, it's the sentimental adult in me that couldn't have handled anything else. The little bit I read about Sewell & the circumstances of how she wrote the book was also fascinating. One criticism is that her depiction of domestic servants, especially the grooms, unfortunately reflects its time. 4y
Freespirit I read it many years ago and loved it. I was horse mad too in those days😊 4y
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GingerAntics Perfectly said 4y
batsy @Freespirit It's a lovely book 🐎🤎 4y
batsy @GingerAntics Thank you! 4y
TheBookHippie Beautifully stated. I had no idea either what a treasure this book is. So many lessons. 4y
batsy @TheBookHippie Thank you! And appreciate you picking this title; I'm knocking off some books from my children's lit tbr :) 4y
leah152 This is one of my favourites. Started me on the path to vegetarianism! Got me across the Nullarbor too.... 😊 4y
charl08 I read this so many times as a kid! I love your cover though. Mine was not this lovely. 4y
batsy @leah152 I can imagine it would have been great company across the Plain 🙂 4y
batsy @charl08 This is a lovely edition, isn't it? Sadly not my copy; I read it on Serial Reader :) 4y
MemoirsForMe I felt the same way—thinking It was just a cheesy book about horses. Glad I finally read it and experienced its profound impact. 4y
leah152 @batsy oh yeah it was lol 🐎📖 4y
batsy @UwannaPublishme Me too! 🙌🏽 4y
Suet624 I think this might have the first book I read on my own as a child. I remember it had some gorgeous photos inside as well. I loved horses and this book affected me deeply. I still remember passages that I read over 55 years ago. (edited) 4y
Nutmegnc One of my first favorite books! 4y
batsy @Suet624 It's a deeply affecting book and I can only imagine the impact it can have on a young mind. I was expecting a certain kind of book but got a very different, very moving one. 4y
batsy @Nutmegnc I'm so glad I finally read it! :) 4y
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MemoirsForMe
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Thanks to @TheBookHippie and our #ChildrensClassicRead2021, I finally read Black Beauty for the first time. Not at all what I expected! It‘s powerful & heart wrenching. My respect & love for these beautiful and misunderstood animals have grown even stronger. Now I want to read more about Sewell after learning about these 2 bios on her.🤔
@PurpleyPumpkin @batsy @GingerAntics @curiouserandcurioser @amber_ldsmom @ravenlee @IndoorDame @Butterfinger

batsy Ooh, interesting! I'd like to learn more about Sewell as well. Screenshotting this :) 4y
curiouserandcurioser @UwannaPublishme Thank you so much for the tag! I love Black Beauty and these look like something i would love to read:) 4y
MemoirsForMe @batsy @curiouserandcurioser I‘m anxious to find out more about Sewell too. We may need to plan another Buddy read! 🐴 4y
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curiouserandcurioser @UwannaPublishme That would be so fun!!:) 4y
PurpleyPumpkin Ooh these look so interesting! I never thought to search for biographies about the author. But I‘d love to learn more about her too. Great idea!👍🏽 4y
MemoirsForMe @PurpleyPumpkin I hope I can find one of these at my library. 😊🙏🏻 4y
TheBookHippie Right?! I learned so much!!! I‘m hoping our library has books on her as well!!! Let me know if you all read them 🤍🤍 isn‘t it amazing we all learned something and loved it!! Makes me so happy!! 4y
MemoirsForMe @TheBookHippie You certainly changed our lives with this one! 🤗 Will keep you posted when I can get my hands on one of these books. 4y
TheBookHippie @UwannaPublishme 🤍🤍🤍🤍 4y
rubyslippersreads I need to find these! 🐴 4y
MemoirsForMe Right??!! Keep me posted and I‘ll do the same. We can always share! 😊 4y
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GingerAntics
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This is such a sweet story. I quite enjoyed it. I read most of it, but finished the last bit on audio. The audiobook is so good, I want to go back and listen to the whole thing if I have enough time before it‘s due. I can see how this book made people start considering animal welfare. It‘s heartbreaking in the middle, but the happy ending, coming full circle, really made this story for me.

TheBookHippie Finishing up this morning! Now I want to do the audio!!! 4y
GingerAntics @TheBookHippie it‘s lovely to have a voice for Black Beauty. It was quite nice. 4y
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PurpleyPumpkin
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This month‘s pick for the #ChildrensClassicRead2021 was a winner! I did a combo read, both audio and print, and I really enjoyed it. This is a reread for me, and it won‘t be my last. I love the POV of this book, even though some parts were upsetting. But, the end was quite satisfying. 4/5⭐️

GingerAntics Oh, this one could be amazing on audio. I‘m checking my library right now. I can‘t believe I didn‘t even think of that before now. 4y
PurpleyPumpkin @GingerAntics I really enjoyed the audio version! I wasn‘t sold at first, but quickly came round. If you can‘t find it at your library, you can listen for free via stories.audible.com! 4y
GingerAntics @PurpleyPumpkin it looks like that exact same audiobook. I am very excited to try this when I get some reading time I little later. 4y
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Suet624 My favorite repeat read from childhood. 4y
TheBookHippie It‘s been wonderful!! I‘m finishing tomorrow ! 4y
batsy Great review. It's my first time reading it and it has honestly taken me by surprise. Darker and sadder than I expected and with good reason. I'm reading on Serial Reader so hope to finish it soon :) 4y
GingerAntics @PurpleyPumpkin the audio is amazing! Thanks for pointing me in that direction. 4y
PurpleyPumpkin @Suet624 It has become mine as well!💜 4y
PurpleyPumpkin @TheBookHippie Oh, I hope you enjoy! Such a lovely ending. 💜 4y
PurpleyPumpkin @batsy Yes, particularly given the fact that it‘s supposed to be a children‘s book, it is quite dark in parts. But it‘s told in a gentle way somehow. Enjoy the rest of your reading!👍🏽 4y
PurpleyPumpkin @GingerAntics So glad you‘re enjoying the audiobook!✅ 4y
MemoirsForMe Totally agree with you and @batsy Much darker and sadder than I expected but such an important message. 4y
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Butterfinger
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"It is because people think ONLY about their own business, and won't trouble themselves to stand up for the oppressed, nor being the wrong-doer to light."

Anna Sewell knew to stand up for mistreatment.

This book was as amazing now as it was when I was 10.

#ChildrensClassicChallenge @TheBookHippie

#AwesomeApril book 7 @Andrew65

TheBookHippie Finishing this week I just love it. 4y
maich I love this one💕 4y
Andrew65 Great 👏👏👏 4y
persephone1408 Classic❤ 4y
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Suet624
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It‘s not even close to Wednesday, but whatever....

1. I was born in Massachusetts.
2. I live in Vermont after having spent time in Tennessee, Arkansas, South Carolina, Arizona, and California.
3. A brother who is 10 years older and a sister who is 5 years older. Apparently I‘m the black sheep of the family.
4. Black Beauty. It was the only book for me. I loved it and reread it often.

#wondrouswednesday

Eggs Great book!! Thanks for playing 🥳📚❤️ 4y
Reggie I thought the babies of the family were the spoiled favorites? 4y
Suet624 @Reggie My sister thought I was the favorite when we were younger. It got very complicated later in life when I had four children and my siblings had none. They cut me out of their twosome tribe because I didn‘t pay enough attention to them. My sister has a bit of crazy in her, so I‘m cool with the distance. I do miss my brother though. He & I had spirituality & sports to talk & laugh about. My extended family has a lengthy history of ostracism. 4y
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Suet624 @Reggie I would also add that being the youngest and quietest in my family the truth is I was completely ignored throughout my time in the household. That‘s the reason I ran away from home the minute I turned 16. 4y
Reggie Awww, I‘m sorry Sue. 4y
Suet624 @Reggie it‘s all good. I am so happy to say that my kids and grandkids are very close and I hope I have done something to stop that generational ostracism. My circle of love continues to expand. 4y
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Butterfinger
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I have to have this copy in my library.

#ChildrensClassicsChallenge @TheBookHippie

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Butterfinger
Black Beauty | Anna Sewell

What right have they to torment and disfigure God's creatures?

I remember a neighbor would dock her kittens' tails and how it bothered me. I did get my Zoe from her, but I told her to leave the tail alone.

It's been 30 so years. I could have even used Black Beauty when I would fuss at her.

#ChildrensClassicsChallenge @TheBookHippie

TheBookHippie Just astounding the lack of love for animals .. 4y
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