A remarkable celebration from the Caldecott Honor-winning artist! A clever young boy outwits a band of voracious tigers and returns home in triumph to a splendid feast of a yard-high stack of pancakes. The story, penned by Helen Brodie Bannerman for her two daughters in 1889, has captured the imagination of readers around the world and across many generations. But the pictures which accompanied her text were crudely stereotypical and hurtful to many. Caldecott Honor-winning artist Christopher Bing has spent almost fifteen ...
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A remarkable celebration from the Caldecott Honor-winning artist! A clever young boy outwits a band of voracious tigers and returns home in triumph to a splendid feast of a yard-high stack of pancakes. The story, penned by Helen Brodie Bannerman for her two daughters in 1889, has captured the imagination of readers around the world and across many generations. But the pictures which accompanied her text were crudely stereotypical and hurtful to many. Caldecott Honor-winning artist Christopher Bing has spent almost fifteen years rediscovering the joy and energy of the original story. He respects that Bannerman was writing in an Indian setting and with Indian animals-after all, there are no tigers in Africa-and faithfully adheres to the original text. However, recognizing that the image of Sambo has been used as a symbol of repression of Africans and African-Americans, Christopher Bing celebrates Sambo as proudly African, a child of beauty and joy, wit and resourcefulness. In recreating the illusion of an antique, weathered, tiger-clawed storybook filled with exquisitely detailed paintings that draw upon a lush jungle-inspired palette, Christopher Bings interpretation of Sambos world seamlessly melds a grand sense of wonder with the minutiae of nature, and a story with history.
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Another book from my childhood days. Story of a little boy who shows courage and resourcefulness in the face of dangers faced from jungle tigers. This book also contains an additional story I had never heard. My daughter actually liked it better! I was excited to be able to share some stories from my childhood with my children.
simont
Dec 22, 2007
Little Black Sambo
Loved this book as a child. Sambo's color never mattered to me, could have been a story about an american indian, or chinese or whatever. Still a good story.
barbiedoll77
Jun 21, 2007
Little Black Sambo
I feel this book is going to be a long-lost treasure someday and I'm very pleased with this book and the pictures. Story is just such a great one with such imagination. Book is in excellent condition and I am pleased to have it among my personal collections.
