by Collins Big Cat (Primary Contributor), Sue Purkiss (Author), Kathryn Baker (Illustrator)
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: Fiction from our literary heritage
Curriculum links: English: fiction from the English literary heritage
Format: Paperback
Pages: 56
Publisher: Collins
Published: 05 Jan 2016
ISBN 10: 0008147299
ISBN 13: 9780008147297
Children’s book age: 9-11 Years