The Famous Mr. Ed: The Unbridled Truth About America's Favorite Talking Horse (30th Anniversary Collector's Edition)
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    The Famous Mr. Ed: The Unbridled Truth About America's Favorite Talking Horse (30th Anniversary Collector's Edition)
    Nancy Nalven
    Manufacturer: Grand Central Publishing
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    ASIN: 0446392960
    Talking with Horses
    Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
    • Great book for dealing with horses from the ground
    • An interesting read
    • Talking with horses was a pleasure to read...
    • A MUST READ. . .
    • Interesting although "sloggy" style.
    Talking with Horses
    Henry Blake
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    ASIN: 0943955378

    Customer Reviews:

    5 out of 5 stars Great book for dealing with horses from the ground.......2006-04-07

    This is the book you need if you have to deal with horses from the ground. There are many riding books, but few on how to get along with them. That's what this is about. Horses are quite willing to communicate with gestures, and this will teach you how to "talk horse".

    3 out of 5 stars An interesting read.......2003-08-02

    Not a bad book. He gets the point across about communicating with horses. Mr Blake a great trick of telling funny anecdotes to get his point across. I haven't had enough to do with horses to confirm the ESP thing yet.

    5 out of 5 stars Talking with horses was a pleasure to read..........2002-04-14

    It was entertaining as well as informative. As a new horse owner I am glad it was the first book I read on the subject. Effective communication skills is a must wheather you are a first time or long time horse owner. It was very helpful to be educated on the psyche, and language of horses and to be given examples that just like people, horses each have their own individual personalities. Mr. Blake has had experience with a large number of horses over the years and has developed a reputation for his patience and handling of difficult horses....and reading about how much enjoyment he received from it was a real inspiration!

    Sherry and James Fannon

    5 out of 5 stars A MUST READ. . ........2001-04-19

    Henry Blake's first book is wonderful. It is not only a retelling of personal experiences but full of practical advice as well. Blake has several useful suggestions for improving the relationship you have with your horse.

    4 out of 5 stars Interesting although "sloggy" style........2000-05-30

    I ordered this book only after reading enough other reviews that suggested it. But although I found the writing style a little to "old fashioned" for me there is some much you can learn from a guy like this that I'm glad I did. On to the second book in the series...
    The HORSE YOU CAME IN ON (CASSETTE)
    Average customer rating: 2 out of 5 stars
    • Not the Best...
    • KEEP JURY IN ENGLAND
    • Embarrassingly insecure/arrogant. Self-indulgent
    • One of the worst books I ever read
    • Balti-moran Pride
    The HORSE YOU CAME IN ON (CASSETTE)
    Martha Grimes
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    ASIN: 0671872230

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    "Intricate and entertaining . . . A delicious puzzle." The Boston Globe
    The murder is in America, but the call goes out to Scotland Yard superintendent Richard Jury. Accompanied by his aristocratic friend Melrose Plant and by Sergeant Wiggins, Jury arrives in Baltimore, Maryland, home of zealous Orioles fans, mouth-watering crabs, and Edgar Allan Poe. In his efforts to solve the case, Jury rubs elbows with a delicious and suspicious cast of characters, embarking on a trail that leads to a unique tavern called "The Horse You Came In On" . . .

    Customer Reviews:

    3 out of 5 stars Not the Best..........2007-08-23

    As a devoted Martha Grimes fan, I can find something to like about every one of her books - with this one I relied on the tried and true characters of Jury, Plant, and Wiggins to pull me through the morass of plot twists, mediocre supporting characters, and the downright dismal portrayal of Baltimorians (can anyone possibly be that pathetic? I guess so.) One refreshing twist in this one - Richard Jury is nearly upbeat! It's often painful to follow him into the vat of depression that he absolutely must slog through in order to solve a case. Melrose is brilliant, as usual, and Wiggins is Wiggins. Gotta love him.

    1 out of 5 stars KEEP JURY IN ENGLAND.......2005-05-04

    I COULD NOT FINISH THIS BOOK. I HAVE GREATLY ENJOYED THE OTHER INSPECTOR JURY MYSTERIES AND WAS REALLY DISAPPOINTED.. MY THEORY IS THAT THE FAULT LAY IN TRYING TO SET AN ENGLISH MYSTERY IN THE US. THE INTERIORITY AND SENSE OF PLACE THAT SO CHARACTERIZES ENGLISH MYSTERY DOES NOT WORK IN A SETTING LIKE THE US. FROM THAT
    STEM ALL THE OTHER DIFFICULTIES WITH THIS BOOK-- FLOUNDERING AND LOST - BECAUSE THE CHARACTERS ARE NOT AT "HOME". AGATHA CHRISTIE COULD PULL IT OFF BUT WHEN POIROT WAS IN EGYPT, FOR INSTANCE, HE WAS SURROUNDED BY ENGLISHMEN WHO HAD IN EFFECT "BROUGHT' THEIR PORTABLE WC'S ( LIKE THE ENGLISH DID IN AFRICA) ON THEIR "SAFARIS". (sorry about the capitals - just noticed it)

    2 out of 5 stars Embarrassingly insecure/arrogant. Self-indulgent.......2005-02-22

    A riddle: What could be more pathetic than Grimes' character Alejandro Vlasic? Grimes pours out the scorn, portraying this ridiculous figure in his ostentatious dress and preening, and laughable jealousy of his commercially successful genre fiction colleague. He sniffs arrogantly at her merely populist work, embarrassingly thrusting copies of his own justifiably ignored tiny single volume of pretentious poetry at anyone passing - all the while eating his liver in envy. We're left in no doubt that, unlike his colleague, he's a complete loser.

    More pathetic than petty little Professor Vlasic? Well, how about a commercially successful genre fiction writer going to the trouble of carefully creating such a character? Really for Grimes to spend so much time glorifying a character, ahem, much like herself, and pillorying those who, it seems, she fears criticism from, is at best embarrassing for the reader.

    Maybe I've started at the wrong end of her career - an amazon reviewer elsewhere recommended her `Man with a load of Mischief', but I found this later `Horse' at my local library instead. It felt really indulgent - many of the characters are writers, and Grimes just seems unaware that it's bad form for her to so unsubtly laud ones like herself. Moreover it feels like Jury and Melrose are supposed to be old friends - perhaps back for a last time reunion and we're just supposed to relish their presence. I don't even know if I would have, however, even if I had enjoyed them in previous books. It feels like those awful 'On Tour' TV episodes - you know, the Happy Days cast goes to Australia or something.

    The detective story, at least, is engaging enough while it's there, but it's hardly central and driving. This is usually for me an attraction of a crime novel: I particularly enjoy ones that have enough going in character, humour and observation that they don't stand or fall on the plot - much as we can enjoy some of the ride when it's driving things. However Grimes' diversions generally don't grab me - particularly (did you get this) when she seems to be blowing her own trumpet (cf. Asimov's appallingly arrogant drivel in the last of his Foundation novels).

    1 out of 5 stars One of the worst books I ever read.......2004-04-26

    Like other reviewers, I read the reviews on the back of the book that said that this was a great book. They were so wrong. I made myself finish the book - assuming that there had to be some clever tie-up of all these stories. But there isn't one. The murders and the solution are merely minor storylines in this book. And all the rest is annoying characters and talk, talk, talk. There are about 3 chapters AFTER you find out who the murderer is (an obvious murderer) and they serve no purpose except for more talk, talk, talk. This was the first book I read by this author and I won't be rushing to read others.

    3 out of 5 stars Balti-moran Pride.......2004-03-15

    Having spent the last six years working two blocks from Cider Alley and Poe's grave, I found this book a very enjoyable read. I can imagine for some folks that this degree of familiarity does not apply, but I can say I've had a beer at the Horse You Came in On, and various other familiar stops that Plant visits with Hughie the hack.

    I do feel that this particular edition of Richard Jury is not as satisfying or complex as some of the other mysteries and that the local color somewhat distracted from the plot. But, having said that, it was a good three hour light read that I did enjoy. Other novels Grimes of course rate much more highly with me, such as the The Blue Last, and The Grave Maurice.
    Yakari and the Grizzly (Yakari)
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      Yakari and the Grizzly (Yakari)
      Job
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      Something very serious is happening in the High Hills. Several animals have disappeared. A terrible grizzly has captured them and treats them as slaves, forcing them to find food for him. Arming himself with courage, Yakari bravely decides to face the vile tyrant. But how can a child stand before the wild animal? Great Eagle advises Yakari to wait for winter, when the bear, satiated, will sleep... Beautiful full-colour illustrations complement simple, easy-to-read texts to make reading appealing to children of all reading levels, and especially to reluctant readers.
      The Talking Horse and the Sad Girl and the Village Under the Sea: Poems
      Average customer rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
      • Disappointing
      • As witty and charming as his novel
      The Talking Horse and the Sad Girl and the Village Under the Sea: Poems
      Mark Haddon
      Manufacturer: Vintage
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      ASIN: 0307275698
      Release Date: 2006-04-11

      Book Description

      From the phenomenally bestselling author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time comes Mark Haddon’s first collection of poems.

      That Mark Haddon’s first book after The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time is a book of poetry may surprise his many fans; that it is also one of such virtuosity and range will not.

      The Talking Horse and the Sad Girl and the Village Under the Sea reveals a poet of great versatility and formal talent. All the gifts so admired in Haddon’s prose are in strong evidence here – the humanity, the dark humour, and the uncanny ventriloquism – but Haddon is also a writer of considerable seriousness, lyric power, and surreal invention. This book will consolidate his reputation as one of the most imaginative writers in contemporary literature.

      Customer Reviews:

      3 out of 5 stars Disappointing.......2006-08-02

      I loved The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time-- truly a wonderful, moving, and powerful novel. I also love poetry, so I was psyched to check out this book. Unfortuantely, I was deeply disappointed. The poems aren't especially bad, just not very good. They kind of meander along without saying too much that's very interesting and without offering any particular finesse with language. A couple are slightly smarmy self-referential poems about poetry and poets, which is usually not a good sign from a first book of poems. There were some occasional pleasures. I really liked this one called New Year's Day: "I walk on powdered/shell for three miles/to the spur's blunt head/where, each year,/something of the ocean/slows and falls/and turns into a yard of land,/and something of the emptiness/we spin through/silts and settles/so that we can walk/a little further/out into the fog." Not bad, but that's about as good as it gets, and there aren't many like that. It's really not bad, just kind of mediocre, which is disappointing after the remarkable job he did with his novel. If you're interested, I think the best thing to do is go to a bookstore and read a few of the poems before you buy.

      4 out of 5 stars As witty and charming as his novel.......2006-08-01

      I bought this book because I loved his novel and because I love poetry. I was not dissappointed. The book is lovely to look at for starters. The poems made me smile and think, rather than wonder what the poet meant.
      Talking Horse
      Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
      • A master on the art of his writing
      Talking Horse
      Bernard Malamud
      Manufacturer: Columbia University Press
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      "I think it hurts a writer," said fiction writer Bernard Malamud, "to have his secrets known--his method of working disclosed while he is still active." Malamud was, according to his colleagues Alan Cheuse and Nicholas Delbanco (the editors of Talking Horse), "resolutely private about the construction of his finished work." Maybe so. But over a lifetime, he wrote an impressive amount of material about his own work, and about fiction in general. Talking Horse collects much of that material--speeches, book introductions, interviews, lesson plans, essays, and more. Included here are notes on The Natural, a defense of fantasy, musings on the great task of embarking on a novel, and a discussion about Jewishness in American fiction. Though most fiction writers see the short story as a warm-up for writing longer fiction, Malamud loved the form. "Within a dozen or few more pages," he said, "whole lives are implied and even understood." He displays here, by turns, endearing humility ("it took years for my work to impress me"), a piercing intellect, disdain for "gossips" who want to know the person behind the fiction, and a strong belief not only that the work must speak for itself, but that there is likely "more to a book or short story than the writer himself knows." A very satisfying collection from a man who liked to claim that "as a writer I learned from Charlie Chaplin." --Jane Steinberg

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      5 out of 5 stars A master on the art of his writing .......2006-01-24

      Nicholas Delbanco and Alan Cheuse two younger colleagues of Bernard Malamud collected speeches, occasional writings, whatever they could find in which Malamud spoke about his writing, and to a lesser degree, his life. Malamud was a dedicated craftsman, a modest and devoted artist, whose love for the short story is strongly emphasized in this collection. Cynthia Ozick writes of it, "In these pages the Malamudian intellect is so clear, the humanistic sweetness so dear, the literary credo so pure, that it is almost as if the writer's living presence-in all its urgent truthfulness - were magically restores to us."
      I think a review of this kind is best served by giving a taste of the words of its subject. So here are remarks from Malamud in 1959 in a speech 'The Writer in the Modern world' which he gave upon receiving the National Book Award.
      " At the same time the writer must imagine a better world for men the while he shows us, in all its ugliness and beauty, the possibilities of this. In recreating thehumanity of man, in reality his greatness, he will, among other things, hold up themirror to the mystery of him, in which poetry and possibility live, though he has endlessly betrayed them. In a sense, the writer in his art, without directly stating it ( though hemay preach, his work must not)must remind man that he has, in his human striving invented nothing less than freedom: and if he will devoutly remember this, he will understand the best way to preserve it and his own highest value."
      The Talking Horse and the Sad Girl and the Village Under the Sea: Poetry
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        The Talking Horse and the Sad Girl and the Village Under the Sea: Poetry
        Mark Haddon
        Manufacturer: Anchor Canada
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        ASIN: 0385662130
        Release Date: 2006-04-11

        Book Description

        From the phenomenally bestselling author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time comes Mark Haddon’s first collection of poems.

        That Mark Haddon’s first book after The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time is a book of poetry may surprise his many fans; that it is also one of such virtuosity and range will not.

        The Talking Horse and the Sad Girl and the Village Under the Sea reveals a poet of great versatility and formal talent. All the gifts so admired in Haddon’s prose are in strong evidence here – the humanity, the dark humour, and the uncanny ventriloquism – but Haddon is also a writer of considerable seriousness, lyric power, and surreal invention. This book will consolidate his reputation as one of the most imaginative writers in contemporary literature.
        All the Pretty Horses
        Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
        • A Super Modern Western Adventure!
        • Cowboys!~
        • Part "High Plains Drifter" and Part "Romeo and Juliet."
        • A wonderful reading experience
        • All the Pretty Horses
        All the Pretty Horses
        Cormac Mccarthy
        Manufacturer: Random House Audio
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        ASIN: 0679425683
        Release Date: 2000-12-05

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        Part bildungsroman, part horse opera, part meditation on courage and loyalty, this beautifully crafted novel won the National Book Award in 1992. The plot is simple enough. John Grady Cole, a 16-year-old dispossessed Texan, crosses the Rio Grande into Mexico in 1949, accompanied by his pal Lacey Rawlins. The two precocious horsemen pick up a sidekick--a laughable but deadly marksman named Jimmy Blevins--encounter various adventures on their way south and finally arrive at a paradisiacal hacienda where Cole falls into an ill-fated romance. Readers familiar with McCarthy's Faulknerian prose will find the writing more restrained than in Suttree and Blood Meridian. Newcomers will be mesmerized by the tragic tale of John Grady Cole's coming of age.

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        Two cassettes, 3 hours
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        A critical triumph, this is the story of John Grady Cole, who at 16 finds himself at the dying end of a long line of Texas ranchers, cut off from the only life he has ever imagined for himself.  To escape a society moving in all the wrong directions, Cole and two companions decide to seek their future in Mexico, a land at once beautiful and desolate, rugged and cruelly civilized.  But what begins as an idyllic, sometimes comic adventure, leads, in fact, to a place where dreams are paid for in blood.  Within months, one of the boys is dead, and the other two aged beyond their years.

        A story about childhood passing, innocence and an American age, here is a grand story and an education in responsibility, revenge, and survival.   All the Pretty Horses is truly a masterpiece.

        Customer Reviews:

        5 out of 5 stars A Super Modern Western Adventure!.......2007-09-22

        Note: I made some Mormon reader angry over my reviews of books written by Mormons out to prove the Book of Mormon, and that person has been slamming my reviews. This review of "All the Pretty Horses" is pretty good. I didn't want to ruin the story by telling too much. Your "helpful" votes are appreciated.

        This memorable novel caught me and wouldn't let go. Around 1948, two teenage boys from Texas ride their horses down into Mexico. From there, the adventure begins. For a while, they live at a cattle ranch where the one boy falls in love with the wealthy rancher's daughter.

        Highly recommended.

        McCarthy is a powerful writer, and his novel "Blood Meridian" is the most powerful novel I ever read (see my review where I compare his prose to that of Conrad).

        Blood Meridian:

        "That night they rode through a region electric and wild where strange shapes of soft blue fire ran over the metal of the hoses' trappings and the wagonwheels rolled in hoops of fire and little shapes of pale blue light came to perch in the ears of the horses and in the beards of the men. All night sheetlightning quaked and sourceless to the west beyond the midnight thunderheads, making a bluish day of the distant desert, the mountains on the sudden skyline stark and black and lived like a land of some other order out there whose true geology was not stone but fear. The thunder moved up from the southwest and lightning lit the desert all about them, blue and barren, great clanging reaches ordered out of the absolute night like some demon kingdom summoned up or changeling land that come the day would leave them neither trace nor smoke nor ruin more than any troubling dream."

        Compare above lines to similar lines in "The Heart of Darkness" by Joseph Conrad:

        "We could have fancied ourselves the first of men taking possession of an accursed inheritance, to be subdued at the cost of profound anguish and of excessive toil. But suddenly, as we struggled round a bend, there would be a glimpse of rush walls, of peaked grass-roofs, a burst of yells, a whirl of black limbs, a mass of hands clapping, of feet stamping, of bodies swaying, , of eyes rolling, under the droop of heavy and motionless foliage. The steamer toiled along slowly on the edge of a black and incomprehensible frenzy. The prehistoric man was cursing us, praying to us, welcoming us--who could tell" we were cut off from the comprehension of our surroundings; we glided past like phantoms, wondering and secretly appalled, as sane men would be before an enthusiastic outbreak in a madhouse. We could not understand because we were too far and could not remember because we were travelling in the night of first ages, of those ages that are gone, leaving hardly a sign--and no memories."
        Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West

        4 out of 5 stars Cowboys!~.......2007-09-18

        This book is short but really interesting. Anybody can read it quickly. The only confusing part is that the book has many quotes but it doesn't say who is saying it. This is why sometimes you have to think twice about who said this and that. The lovestory is not like any typical teenage lovestory- in one word it is DIFFERENT.

        5 out of 5 stars Part "High Plains Drifter" and Part "Romeo and Juliet.".......2007-09-10

        Cormac McCarthy was born in Rhode island and grew up in Tennessee, but now lives in Tesuque, New Mexico. He is viewed by many as one of the more unusual and most talented of the current American writers. For example, Harold Bloom has written a number of things about McCarthy.

        Some describe Mccarthy as a loner. Coincidentally, that is what one might call the protagonist in the present novel: John Grady. The novel is set in the 1950s time period and Grady is a young man or mature boy caught between the horse and buggy days of the old west and the new west connected by modern highways. Grady has a fascination for horses and is a talented rider.

        The story is about two men who ride their horses into Mexico and work as ranch hands in Mexico. It is part love story and part a tale of justice and adventure, i.e.: Grady meets a woman in Mexico. The protagonist is a sympathetic character and most readers will find it to be a compelling read.

        Some might not like it for the prose. The prose is complicated by design. I thought the first thirty pages were sometimes a bit awful but effective as well, but then McCarthy lightens up a bit on his writing. He reminded me a bit of the opening of Farewell to Arms where Hemingway tries to set the mood through the use of prose: Hemingway uses a narrative of the natural surroundings. McCarthy uses expressions such as "the sun sat blood red and elliptic," and these seem out of place when compared to the spartan dialogue of a father and son talking over a breakfast of eggs and coffee.

        Also, McCarthy uses what is called polysyndeton, or the use of several conjunctions in close succession, especially where some might be omitted. It is a stylistic scheme used to slow down the tempo. As pointed out by others, polysyndeton is used extensively in the King James Version of the Bible. For example:

        "And every living substance was destroyed which was upon the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and the creeping things, and the fowl of the heaven; and they were destroyed from the earth: and Noah only remained alive, and they that were with him in the ark." Genesis 7:22-24

        One of the best parts in the book - and exceptional writing by the way - is where he describes a dream in the middle of the book about horses running free on a plain and he does so in 18 continuous lines with no punctuation.

        So, this is based on some universal themes, set in Texas and Mexico, and has some interesting and complicated prose. Once you get passed page 30 to 50, it is a novel that is hard to put down. I read most of the novel in an evening.

        Highly recommended page turner: 5 stars.

        5 out of 5 stars A wonderful reading experience.......2007-09-09

        This was one of the best reading experiences Ive ever had. What was most important to me was how true to the how people of this lifestyle actually are. I grew up in this type of atmosphere and its a big part of who I am even though it no longer defines me on a daily basis. Working with horses is a lifestyle. It what you live and breathe. McCarthy captures that. It had such an effect on me and took me back to a life I miss so much. Enjoy this book.

        2 out of 5 stars All the Pretty Horses.......2007-08-06

        I was disappointed in the style of this book. I had just read "Water for Elephants" and was blown away. The reviews I read lead me to this author and the above book. The story line is good however he is slow to develop it. I appreciate discriptive text however a paragraph (or more) it seems to descibbe a dry river bed is a bit much especially when there is one on every page. Alas the last 1/3 of the book will go unread. And I will search for the next W.F.E.
        The Arabian Nights
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          The Arabian Nights

          Manufacturer: Hyperion Press
          ProductGroup: Book
          Binding: Board book
          ASIN: B000BMFBY2

          Product Description

          The Talking Bird, Aladdin, The Magic Horse, Ali Baba, The Fisherman and the Genie, The Young King of the Black Isles, Abou Mahomed the Lazy
          BLACK BEAUTY-PACKAGE (Random House Book & Cassette Classics)
          Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
          • A timeless story
          • good book for adults and kids and horse owners and horse groomers and anybody that has to do with horses whether nice or cruel!
          • Behind Black Beauty
          • Black Beauty
          • Black Beauty
          BLACK BEAUTY-PACKAGE (Random House Book & Cassette Classics)
          Anna Sewell
          Manufacturer: Random House Books for Young Readers
          ProductGroup: Book
          Binding: Audio Cassette

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          ASIN: 0394892283
          Release Date: 1987-11-12

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          A horse is a horse of course unless of course the horse is Black Beauty. Animal-loving children have been devoted to Black Beauty throughout this century, and no doubt will continue through the next. Although Anna Sewell's classic paints a clear picture of turn-of-the-century London, its message is universal and timeless: animals will serve humans well if they are treated with consideration and kindness.

          Black Beauty tells the story of the horse's own long and varied life, from a well-born colt in a pleasant meadow to an elegant carriage horse for a gentleman to a painfully overworked cab horse. Throughout, Sewell rails--in a gentle, 19th-century way--against animal maltreatment. Young readers will follow Black Beauty's fortunes, good and bad, with gentle masters as well as cruel. Children can easily make the leap from horse-human relationships to human-human relationships, and begin to understand how their own consideration of others may be a benefit to all. (Ages 9 to 12)

          Product Description

          A spirited thoroughbred horse tells of his experiences with a series of different masters, some good -- some despicable. Listen to it again...it is as good as you remember it. Four 90-minute cassettes.

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          A happy colt from a loving home falls on hard times when his owners are forced to sell him.

          Customer Reviews:

          4 out of 5 stars A timeless story.......2007-09-27

          Black Beauty is the story of a horse and possibly one of the best-loved animal stories of all time, except for perhaps Old Yeller. This novel will inspire young readers to be kind and compassionate to animals. It will teach young readers to treat everyone with kidness and respect.

          5 out of 5 stars good book for adults and kids and horse owners and horse groomers and anybody that has to do with horses whether nice or cruel!.......2007-09-08

          this book is good for any horse owner, horse groomer, cruel horse owners, nice horse owners, its good for anyone i've read it about 100 times, and have sevreal copies of it its a good book read it if you like horses!

          4 out of 5 stars Behind Black Beauty.......2007-06-05

          Black Beauty is a classic novel told through the eyes of a horse. Black Beauty's story is one of happy times, cruel owners, a frightning fire, and how some speical people can bond with animals. The book takes you from Black Beautys foalhood, through his training, being sold and resold untll he finds a home for keeps. This book teaches the virtue of being strong throug misundestandings, and bad times alike. But under the first artfully crafted layer of the story comes another meaning. This book is about british society, with its flaws and good parts too. Black Beauty, not geting to pick who he is sold to, is bought by people from all over the range of social status. He finds that the rich aren't always good nor the poor bad. When he finnally finds the right home though, he just knows.

          5 out of 5 stars Black Beauty.......2006-12-15

          Black Beauty is one of the best books of all time. It's a very heart filled and emotional story. What I loved about this book was that it taught me that even in times of trouble there is always hope. Everyone should enjoy reading this book. Even if you do get emotional, keep reading! You'll understand what I'm saying when you finish the book.

          5 out of 5 stars Black Beauty.......2006-12-07

          Black Beauty is an awesome book that you should enjoy reading.The author of " Black Beauty " is Ann Sewell.It's about a horse and he trys to be a loyal horse and trys to please his owner. It's really good because he is rasied by one family and then that family passes him on to another family and another family,so he just gets passed down from a whole bunch of people and he trys to please them as he goes.So this book would be a good book for all of you horse crazy kids!

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