Black Beauty vs The girl who loved wild horses: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: Horses, Fairy Tales, Children's fiction
Black Beauty
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An Apple Books Classic edition.With Black Beauty, author Anna Sewell hoped to make people care about the cruel abuses that cab horses were suffering—bought and sold, whipped, and worked to exhaustion. Sewell tells the…
The girl who loved wild horses
“The people were always moving from place to place following the herds of buffalo.”
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Though she is fond of her people, a girl prefers to live among the wild horses where she is truly happy and free.
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The verdict
- Readers rate Black Beauty highest: Black Beauty 4.3 · The girl who loved wild horses 3.8.
- The girl who loved wild horses is the quickest read — about 1 hours vs 6 for Black Beauty.
- Black Beauty has the widest readership — 789 ratings behind its score.
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How to choose
Scores by source
| Black Beauty | The girl who loved wild horses | |
|---|---|---|
| Hardcover | 3.8 (271) | 3.7 (10) |
| Apple Books | 4.5 (789) | — |
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Reception
| Black Beauty | The girl who loved wild horses | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 789 | 10 |
| Editions | 150 | 21 |
| Citations | 36 | — |
| Film adaptations | 1 | — |
| Wikipedia attention | 9579 | 323 |
| Pages | 328 | 32 |
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Questions readers ask
Which is rated higher: Black Beauty or The girl who loved wild horses?
Black Beauty has the higher combined reader rating across sources (Black Beauty 4.3/5, The girl who loved wild horses 3.8/5).
Which is shorter to read: Black Beauty or The girl who loved wild horses?
The girl who loved wild horses is the quickest read. Estimated at 225 words per minute: The girl who loved wild horses (32 pages, ≈ 36 min); Black Beauty (328 pages, ≈ 6 h 04 m).
Which is harder to read: Black Beauty or The girl who loved wild horses?
Estimated difficulty, based on era, reader shelves and length — Black Beauty: Moderate; The girl who loved wild horses: Light.
Have both books been made into films?
Black Beauty: 5 film adaptations; The girl who loved wild horses: no film adaptation on record.