The Story of Little Black Sambo

By Helen Bannerman

Book Overview

In a gloriously illustrated new edition of the 1889 original, a young boy outwits a gang of voracious tigers and feasts on a yard-high stack of pancakes. Award-winning artist Christopher Bing has brilliantly tackled the task of transforming what have been deeply stereotypical and racist images of an African child into a celebration of resourcefulness and wit. An introduction by an African-American scholar is included, placing the work in historical context and addressing the propriety of reissuing this text.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1929766556
• ISBN13: 9781929766550
• Release Date: November 2003
• Publisher: Chronicle Books
• Length: 40 Pages
• Weight: 1.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 9.0" x 13.0"
• Age Range: 12 years and under
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 7

Customer Reviews

Beautiful Book

This is such a beautiful book! It has wonderful illustrations, and brings back warm memories of eating at a pancake house where they gave out this story when I was a little girl.

outstanding

used this for a read-aloud and all my classes loved the pictures of this timeless tale fellow teachers enjoyed the history in the back as well