Mississippi (From Sea to Shining Sea, Second Series) Book

Black Beauty has been a humane education classic for generations. Told from the point of view of a horse, it emphasized the humane treatment of animals as well as sensitizing readers to the plight of horses of the era--bought, sold, and worked to the ground like inanimate objects.

Youngsters not quite ready to tackle the novel will get a feel for the story in this heavily abridged graphic novel. The illustrations are rather poor, but the core message of the book remains intact. Horse lovers in the second and third grades should flock to this one.