Most horse lovers have read Black Beauty, the famous novel Anna Sewell wrote to raise awareness of the mistreatment of carriage and other working horses in Victorian England.

Another English writer, Michael Morpurgo, accomplished a similar feat with War Horse, his 1982 novel of World War I told, like Black Beauty, through the eyes of an equine protagonist.

War Horse

The equine stars of War Horse are life-sized puppets designed to swivel their ears, spook, and act like real horses

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