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The Story of Little Black Sambo by Helen Bannerman Book Summary

The Story of Little Black Mingo by Helen Bannerman, tell of a child who overcome the odds. First published by Grant Richards in 1899, The Story of Little Black Sambo is one in a series of small-format books called The Dumpy Books for Children. Sambo is a South Indian boy who encounters four hungry tigers, and surrenders his colourful new clothes, shoes, and umbrella so they will not eat him. The tigers chase each other around a tree until they are reduced to a pool of melted butter; Sambo then recovers his clothes and his mother makes pancakes of the butter. The story was a children's favorite for half a century until the word sambo was deemed a racial slur in some countries, and the illustrations considered reminiscent of "darky iconography".

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