A poignant & moving retelling of Anna Sewell&s classic novel which follows the story of Black Beauty
- the brave & noble horse
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Anna Sewell&s Black Beauty was an immediate success on its publication in 1877 & has gone on to sell an estimated 50 million copies Black Beauty is a horse with a fine black coat a white foot & a silver star on his forehead Seen through his eyes the story tells of his idyllic upbringing & the hardship & cruelty he suffers subsequently before finding security & happiness in a new home Black Beauty is one of the most popular children&s books ever written ...

" You saved your mistress&s life Beauty! yes you saved her life" Black Beauty is the prettiest young horse in the meadows & spends many happy days under the apple trees with his friends Ginger & Merrylegs But this easy life comes to an end when Beauty is sold & goes from farm to inn to cabhorse in London enduring rough treatment from foolish & careless masters Beauty remains faithful hardworking & full of spirit despite his trials & through him we learn that all horses & humans alike deserve to be treated with kindness BACKSTORY Find out about the unusual author & learn some horsey vocabulary ...

This title is suitable for children aged 7 years & up Black Beauty is the classic horse story a beautiful & touching tale told by the title character himself Set in Victorian London it follows Beauty&s life & changing fortunes as he moves from owner to owner As the horse encounters new experiences & new friends who reveal their own histories the story quietly paints a fascinating portrait of how animals were treated during that era ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Black Beautya film centering on a 15 year-old girl who volunteers at a city pound & convinces her Grandfather in the country to adopt a horse that was rescued from an abusive owner They spend the summer rehabilitating " Black Beauty" ...

Black Beauty is a young black colt & loves roaming Farmer Gray&s fields with his mother As Black Beauty grows into a handsome stallion he is trained into the use of a saddle & whip & sold to Squire Gordon of Birtwick Hall Here he makes many friends including the angry Ginger the well-meaning Merrylegs & the elderly Sir Oliver as well as stablehands James & John When Squire Gordon has to move abroad to improve his wife&s ill health Black Beauty is sold again to Earlshall Park So begins a hard & unsettled life for Black Beauty who is always at the whim of his human owners Often he is whipped & made to wear blinkers or the bearing rein at other times he must work as a cab horse on the busy London streets Will Black Beauty ever be able to roam the fields again as he did in his childhood? What has become of his friends Ginger & Merrylegs? Rediscover Anna Sewell&s moving tale of the hardships of being an animal in a human world with Scholastic&s classic edition ...

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- with these perfectly tiered "belt" books each containing 150 kakuros They take their cue from the belt colors in martial arts white is for novices green for intermediates brown for very accomplished players & black for those consummate experts who crave a challenge

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Meet the newest member of Zombie Tramp universe! Black Betty has made a living killing the unkillable She has taken down monsters of every shape & size with a style all her own But when a man’s daughter is kidnapped by a local legend Betty steps in to save her for a price! If you need it dead (and you’ve got the cash!) Betty’s your girl! Collects Black Betty 1-4 ...

Please note this is a region B Blu-Ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-Ray player in order to play When his Parisian armored car holdup goes horribly awry our protagonist Black needs to go on the lam News from his cousin in Senegal about a stash of uncut diamonds in a poorly guarded bank in Dakar hatches the plan to go on a working vacation that involves a little sightseeing & a lot of mayhem Genre fans know underground French MC Jean Gab&1 as a villain in District B-13 but with BLACK he takes center stage & delivers a nouveau-blacksploitation adventure awash in black magic African mysticism mutant arms dealers gargantuan machete-wielding mercenary armies & a truckload of knuckle-sandwiches ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play From Graham Linehan co-writer of & Father Ted& comes a new cult comedy set in a second hand bookshop Dylan Moran stars as the bohemian & frequently drunk owner who has one major problem with his line of work he hates customers Help is soon at hand however in the form of mild-mannered Manny (Bill Bailey) who proves to be something of a star at selling books Cooking The Books Bernard&s dodgy accountant has to go on the run leaving him ill prepared to fill out his own tax return In fact Bernard would rather do anything than fill it out Manny First Day After Manny&s help with the tax return Bernard is pursuaded to hire him in the shop Unfortunatly he actually sells some books much to Bernard&s annoyance The Grapes Of Wrath Bernard & Manny accept a house sitting job to get away from their new cleaner They also drink a lot of wine some of which is proved to be irreplacable The Blackout A hyperactive Manny fuelled by caffeine is mistaken for a policeman The Big Lock-Out The shop gets a new security system that no-one can work trapping them outside He&s Leaving Home Manny runs away from the bookshop into the arms of a beard loving photographer Actors Dylan Moran Bill Bailey Tamsin Greig Kevin Eldon Nick Frost & Omid Djalili Director Graham Linehan Certificate 15 years & over Year 2000 Screen Widescreen 169 Anamorphic Languages English
- Dolby Digital (20) Stereo Duration 2 hours & 12 minutes (approx) Region Region 2
- Will only play on European Region 2 or multi-region DVD players

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