The Story of Little Black Sambo
Blue Apple - Chronicle Books
Available: 01/15/04
9 x 13 · 40 pages
9781929766550
CDN $19.95
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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.
Helen Bannerman (1862-1946) was born in Scotland. The daughter of a chaplain who was posted to foreign countries, she lived for over thirty years in India. She married a doctor in the Indian Medical Service, and they had two daughters. The Story Of Little
Christopher Bing Christopher Bing, whose first book, Casey at the Bat," was named a 2001 Caldecott Honor Book, lives with his wife and three children in Lexington, Massachusetts, in a house directly on the Freedom Trail, the route on which Paul Revere rode on that fateful night of April 18th, two hundred twenty-six years ago.
