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Black Beauty

By: Anna Sewell
Narrated by: Nathaniel Parker
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Summary

This classic tale of a handsome, spirited horse, Black Beauty has been a children's favourite for over 100 years. Sewell tells the story of Beauty's life from a young foal through to a working horse.
Public Domain (P)2008 BBC Audiobooks Ltd
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Wow! The narrator and story are awesome

This is a lovely story I could’ve listened it forever. That Anna Sewell was a brilliant writer and the narrator was the best I’ve ever heard. With some sound effects, this could’ve have easily been a delightful radio drama. I listened to this with my 8 year old daughter and we thoroughly enjoyed it.

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Loved it

It’s a beautiful story, deep in meaningful.
I had tears of joy at times.
5 stars, absolutely worth listening, and would recommend !

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Excellent read

We recommend that you reduce the speed slughtly as the reader reads quite quickly but he he has a very good voice. The story is happy and sad and depressing but is well worth listening to. The pace is excellent. A lot happens in the story so at no stage is it boring. Although no one keeps horses for most of the jobs any more it is still very interesting.

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Amazing

I always love listening to Black Beauty it is both tragic, sad and happy. It helps me get to sleep and have exciting dreams.

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Still A Masterpiece

I last read this book as a teenager (which was quite a while ago). It is as brilliant now as it was then. It made me both smile and shed tears. Anna Sewell was ahead of her time.
Narrator was really good too.

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Ponies ponies ponies❤️🐴

Black black beauty very very beautiful 😍🎀
I share 2 ponies there names are Wall.E and Milo🥰🐎🐴🐾

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Amazing book

I love horses so much but this was lovely but sad at the same time it had mixed emotions. I loved this book

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Black beauty

This is an amazing book. The only thing I’ll say is the scary bits like a fire where the horses died and the blood tongue. That was a bit too scary for maybe three-year-olds and two-year-olds. I don’t really think they understand like violence so I think they’re all ages up from maybe my age which is seven up to about, however old you want to read this book at really like it recommended for maybe my age upwards, but yeah I really like to recommend more books like this and that’s all I have to say very good. Loved it so I hope all the other people reading this love it too. It’s a very good book well done Anna Sewell.

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very good

Marvelous book. Easy to listen to very well read. Would recommend to all ages. Amazing.

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Must read/listen about kindness

This book should be listened to or read by everyone. It has such a good message about kindness and not being cruel to animals and people. Think and learn about possible outcomes before moving forward without knowledge.

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