Helbling Readers Red Series Level 2: Black Beauty with CD

　　最受孩子歡迎的故事，黑神駒！

　　黑神駒誕生在一個充滿愛的家庭，直到他的主人經濟困窘必需把牠賣了，牠的命運開始轉變，牠換過一個又一個主人，遭受到不好的對待。但牠始終不曾放棄年輕的快樂生活的夢想。

　　The much-loved children’s story of a horse, Black Beauty. Black Beauty begins his life at a loving home. But when his owners have to sell him, his fortune changes. As Black Beauty moves from home to home and job to job, he often suffers bad treatment and living conditions. But Black Beauty still dreams of the happy life he had as a young foal.

作者簡介

　　Anna Sewell was born in 1820 in England. The family were Quakers and she had a brother called Phillip.

　　Anna’s mother was a successful author of children’s books. She taught Anna at home until she was 12, concentrating on natural history and moral education. When she was 14, Anna fell while walking home from school in the rain, and injured both her ankles. She never recovered completely and had to use a crutch to stand or walk.

　　Anna never married or had children, but lived at home, and remained very close to her mother, Mary Wright Sewell, helping her to edit her books.

　　Anna traveled with her parents to a number of European spas in the hope of improving her health. She met various writers, artists, and philosophers there and enjoyed sharing ideas and opinions with them.

　　Sewell’s only book was Black Beauty, which she wrote between 1871 and 1877. She dictated the text to her mother. Anna originally wrote Black Beauty for people who worked with horses, but if soon became a popular children’s story.

　　Anna died on 25th April 1878 just five months after the publication of the book. Her home is now a Museum.