{"product_id":"9784871872829","title":"Beautiful Joe A Dogs Own Story - Large Print Edition","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis is a favorite book for advocates for animal rights. Anybody who has read the book Black Beauty published in 1877 ISBN 9784871876872 and this book quickly realizes that this book and Black Beauty have similar stories except that Black Beauty is about a horse and Beautiful Joe published in 1893 is about a dog. Just as Black Beauty was supposedly written by a horse, Beautiful Joe is supposedly written by a dog. Another difference is that Beautiful Joe is not he watches and reports on other animals being mistreated and people suffering and sometimes dying as a result. This is the story of a real dog, which has become a classic that never grows old.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBeautiful Joe was not handsome when he started life and the ill treatment of his first master did not approve his appearance. But he had a beautiful character and when he was taken into another home where there were other animals he had an adventurous and happy life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe author became acquainted with Beautiful Joe when she was visiting friends and she admired and loved his sterling qualities. Upon her return to her home in Nova Scotia, she wrote his own story as he might have told it himself, weaving into it the pets and people of her own family.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere is a human quality running through all its descriptions of animal life while with the story is combined much practical information on the care of household pets.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBeautiful Joe has brought pleasure to millions of readers because he is the sort of dog anyone would be proud to own.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ishi Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47060486127856,"sku":"9784871872829","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9784871872829_p0.jpg?v=1763715291","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9784871872829","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}