"The Story of Little Black
Sambo" is a children's book by Helen
Bannerman, a Scottish author who wrote a number of
children's books. She lived for a good proportion
of her life in India, where her husband was an
officer in the Indian Medical Service.
Set in a fairy tale India, "Little Black Sambo" tells
the story of a little boy who has to sacrifice to
tigers his new red coat and his new blue trousers
and his new purple shoes- which the tiger wears on
his ears- but he outwits the predators in his
world, to return safely home and eat 169 pancakes
for his supper.
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"Little Black Sambo", from the
cover of the 1899 edition by Helen Bannerman |