"Beauty, I love you. Do you love me? Will you marry me?" What should she say? She was afraid of him ... And so she said, "No, Beast. You are kind, but I don´t love you. And I don´t want to marry you." At this the Beast let out a roar of anger and pain. "Why don´t you love me?
I walked to the highest part of the island and looked around. The island was quite large, but there were no people on it. I looked out to sea, and there were no boats. "Why," I thought, "did this happen to me? But I´m still alive. There must be some reason for that."
Anna Sewell,retold by Jenny Dooley & Virginia Evans
Description:
A horse´s life can be happy and free, or it can be hard and full of sadness. Follow Black Beauty through his carefree early years, until a deadly accident sends him into the hands of many owners - some kind, some cruel. Will he survive long enough to be happy again?
... When the men were all looking at the treasure, something like a black shadow came to the top of the stairs ... It stayed back in the darkness of the stairs until the men moved the chest to their boats ...
