title: Black Beauty: The Graphic Novel
author:  June Brigman 
description: This graphic novel adapts the classic children's story of a horse whose gentle nature triumphs over abuse and misfortune. Anna Sewell's original remains beloved to preteen girls in particular, not just for the adventures Black Beauty goes through, but also for Sewell's lyrical descriptions of a past era. Husband-and-wife team Brigman and Richardson do a wonderful job illustrating that period, with b&amp;w drawings that pop off the page and give readers an excellent sense of place as well as time. Unfortunately hamstrung by having to shorten a story that spans many years, they have had to cut all of Sewell's descriptions and most of her transitions, leaving short, choppy chapters that represent information rather than tell a story. Sewell originally wrote the story to expose mistreatment of animals in her society, and the cuts leave the adaptation sounding a bit preachy and repetitive. The spirit of the author's brave horse still comes through, as Black Beauty describes his different masters and the other horses he meets in his life. This should be a hit with horse lovers still too young for the original. <br />Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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  WARNING:: This book ends with one girl finding her happily ever
  after with five handsome guys, opening the endless well of love in her
  heart to the rock band, Beauty in Lies.
  The pages herein contain graphic sex, lovemaking, quickies, romance,
  world travel, a little guy on guy action, admissions of love, rock 'n' roll
  music and genuine friendship. This book should only be read by those
  who've got a little moxie in their step.
  
   
  Moxie
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  The characters and events portrayed in this book are fictitious. Any similarity to r