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Beautiful Joe - Hardcover

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by Marshall Saunders (Author)

Beautiful Joe is a classic children's animal story told in the voice of a mistreated dog whose rescue becomes a plea for kindness, compassion, and humane treatment. Based on the true story of a real dog from Meaford, Ontario, the novel follows Joe after he is abused by a cruel owner and then taken in by a loving family who helps him heal. Speaking in his own imagined voice, Joe tells not only his own story but also the stories of other animals whose lives reveal both human cruelty and human goodness.

First published in 1893, Marshall Saunders's novel became one of the most important animal-protection books of its era and a landmark in Canadian children's literature. Like Black Beauty, it uses an animal narrator to awaken sympathy in young readers, turning suffering into moral imagination and encouraging children to recognize animals as feeling beings deserving care. Its combination of story, sentiment, reform, and child-friendly narration helped make it widely read for generations.

Readers who love classic children's books, dog stories, humane education, animal-rescue fiction, and old-fashioned family read-alouds will find Beautiful Joe both moving and historically important. It remains a powerful story about cruelty answered by kindness, and about the way one rescued animal's voice can speak for many others.

Number of Pages: 206
Dimensions: 0.63 x 9 x 6 IN
Publication Date: April 03, 2018

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