Story of Little Black Sambo

A remarkable celebration from the Caldecott Honorwinning artist A cleveryoung boy outwits a band of voracious tigers and returns home in triumph to asplendid fe... » 

A remarkable celebration from the Caldecott Honorwinning artist A cleveryoung boy outwits a band of voracious tigers and returns home in triumph to asplendid feast of a yardhigh stack of pancakes. The story penned by HelenBrodie Bannerman for her two daughters in 1889 has captured the imagination ofreaders around the world and across many generations. But the pictures whichaccompanied her text were crudely stereotypical and hurtful to many. CaldecottHonorwinning artist Christopher Bing has spent almost fifteen yearsrediscovering the joy and energy of the original story. He respects thatBannerman was writing in an Indian setting and with Indian animalsafter allthere are no tigers in Africaand faithfully adheres to the original text.However recognizing that the image of Sambo has been used as a symbol ofrepression of Africans and AfricanAmericans Christopher Bing celebrates Samboas proudly African a child of beauty and joy wit and resourcefulness. Inrecreating the illusion of an antique weathered tigerclawed storybook filledwith exquisitely detailed paintings that draw upon a lush jungleinspiredpalette Christopher Bing s interpretation of Sambo s world seamlessly melds agrand sense of wonder with the minutiae of nature and a story with history. «