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Story of Little Black Sambo
Story of Little Black Sambo | Helen Bannerman
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A remarkable celebration from the Caldecott Honor-winning artist!A clever young boy outwits a band of voracious tigers and returns home in triumph to a splendid feast of a yard-high stack of pancakes. The story, penned by Helen Brodie Bannerman for her two daughters in 1889, has captured the imagination of readers around the world and across many generations. But the pictures which accompanied her text were crudely stereotypical and hurtful to many. Caldecott Honor-winning artist Christopher Bing has spent almost fifteen years rediscovering the joy and energy of the original story. He respects that Bannerman was writing in an Indian setting and with Indian animals-after all, there are no tigers in Africa-and faithfully adheres to the original text. However, recognizing that the image of Sambo has been used as a symbol of repression of Africans and African-Americans, Christopher Bing celebrates Sambo as proudly African, a child of beauty and joy, wit and resourcefulness. In recreating the illusion of an antique, weathered, tiger-clawed storybook filled with exquisitely detailed paintings that draw upon a lush jungle-inspired palette, Christopher Bing s interpretation of Sambo s world seamlessly melds a grand sense of wonder with the minutiae of nature, and a story with history.
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Panpan

I had this book as a kid in the wee years of the 90s and gods how far along we came as a society and how horridly racist this book was

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mollywimmers1

“little black samba I'm going to eat you up“

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mollywimmers1

I did like the repetition of the book and that was a fictional book with fantasy book element but also an African history book. I think kids would like this book and its layout

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mollywimmers1
Mehso-so

I kind of liked this book. I think the story was fun and kids would really like that imaginative elements like the animals wearing human clothes

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Peddler410
Story of Little Black Sambo | Helen Bannerman
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My mom found this in their basement. I celebrate Banned Books Week in my school library every September and this TITLE always comes up. What a great addition this will make for the discussion.