Black Beauty or A Book Written in the Language of Horses

The “Great Little Classics” series retells classic stories we’d want to read to our children, before they can read by themselves.

Black Beauty, the autobiography of a horse, is one of the most sensitive animal stories ever written. It is the fascinating tale of the life of a horse between moments of happiness and bitterness from the country to London and back again.

Antonis Papatheodoulou was born in Athens. He has published more than 50 books for children, which have been translated into eleven languages and have been adapted into plays and puppet theatre, and have won many awards, including two Greek State Picture Book Awards and the 2016 International Compostela Prize. Five of his books have been included in the White Ravens list of the International Children’s Library of Munich. He has been a candidate for the 2019 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award.

Iris Samartzi is a children’s book illustrator and an art teacher. Her work has received many awards, including the 2016 International Compostela Prize for Picture Books, the Greek State Picture Book Award (2012, 2016) and the Greek IBBY Award (2012, 2015, 2016 and 2017). Iris runs art workshops for children. She lives and works in Athens, Greece. She is nominated for the Hans Christian Andersen Award 2020.Read more about Iris and her work at www.irissamartzi.com.