Black Beauty meets many different people during his difficult life.

Can Black Beauty ever be as happy as he was at Mr Gordon's farm?Ladybird Readers is a graded reading series of traditional tales, popular characters, modern stories, and non-fiction, written for young learners of English as a foreign or second language.

Beautifully illustrated and carefully written, the series combines the best of Ladybird content with the structured language progression that will help children develop their reading, writing, speaking, listening and critical thinking skills. The eight levels of Readers and Activity Books follow the CEFR framework and include language activities that provide preparation for the Cambridge English: Young Learners (YLE) exams. Black Beauty, a Level 6 Reader, is A2+ in the CEFR framework and supports YLE Flyers and KET exams.

The longer text is made up of sentences with up to four clauses, more complex past and future tense structures, passives and time clauses.