When the young horse Black Beauty is sold, he has no idea of the hardships he is about to face. A moving series of tales of cruelty and kindness across the rolling hills of the English countryside and the narrow cobbled streets of London.
Sarah desperately wants a horse for her birthday. She'll call it Treacle and they will go everywhere together. But as the presents for her birthday pile up, Sarah begins to act like a horse - galloping and stamping and whinnying.
Zerelda lived in the middle of a great city. It stretched in every direction, but she driving tourists to markets and museums in a yellow gig pulled by Puzzle - their hard-working horse. Zerelda and Puzzle were particularly good friends, and perhaps having a horse by way of a friend made Zerelda pay special attention to the city statues standing at important city corners or in the centres of it…