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Black Beauty
Bring Black Beauty to life with our Read & Respond Teacher’s Book including a wealth of inspiring activities, online resources and guided reading notes.
- Stimulating content mapped to curriculum objectives
- Downloadable activities and extras
- Shared reading section including non-fiction extracts
- Time-saving lesson plans, activities and assessments
- Fun-filled activities help children to fully engage with each story, encouraging a love of reading and building a range of skills.
| Themes | Cross-curricular links | Category |
|---|---|---|
| Kindness | History | Classics |
| Animals & Habitats | Drama | – |
| Tolerance | PSHE | – |
| Right and wrong | - | – |
Black Beauty
Transcending time and place, Anna Sewell’s moving classic has inspired kindness, tolerance and hope since it was first published in 1877. Now one of the bestselling children’s books of all time, and with themes that are possibly more relevant today than ever before, the story of Black Beauty continues to captivate children.
Worked like a slave on the streets of Victorian London, will poor Black Beauty have the strength to survive? As a young colt, Beauty loves roaming Farmer Gray’s fields. But as he grows up, he must submit to the saddle and whip. Sold to Squire Gordon of Birtwick Hall, he makes many friends – until he is sent to London as a working horse. Will Black Beauty ever roam the fields again, as he did in his idyllic childhood? Will the kindness of friends make up for the cruelty he endures?
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