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By the Scottish author of a number of children's books, the most famous being Little Black Sambo. She lived for a good proportion of her life in India, where her husband was an officer in the Indian Medical Service. The story takes place in a fairy tale India where a little boy outwits the predators in his world, to return safely home and eat 169 pancakes for his supper. It was a children's favourite for half a century.
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Helen Bannerman wrote Little Black Sambo in 1898 to console her two daughters who were sent away from home.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I read this book when I was only 4 years old and I am delighted to see that it is still the same. Nothing has changed in all those years. I love this book. I am giving it to my nephew for Christmas. A sparcity of texte, exquisite illustrations (and the crimson soles and crimson linings are still there!)and it is still the same size!
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Sadly, I bought this book for the child of a friend who was born in the 70s. It was returned to Amazon, as being socially and culturally unaccceptable. Such a heartache, this is a beautiful childs' classic. I love it, and would recommend it to any child. Just be sure the parent isn't so closed-minded as to reject it because the Tamil people in the story are called 'Black'.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I still have my original copy of this book, as I loved it so much, and I am now 68 years old! The original was larger and the colours were so vivid. My poor mother had to read it over and over again, I just couldn't get enough of it. My 2 daughters loved it and now my 6 grand-children are passionate about it, just as I was. I love this pocket version just as much.
I bought the American copy too and was disappointed as the colours were darker and different and the last page was missing where they were all sitting down at the table eating the pancakes.
I bought the American copy too and was disappointed as the colours were darker and different and the last page was missing where they were all sitting down at the table eating the pancakes.
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Little Black Sambo
This was purchased for my sister who as a child would make my mother read the book over and over again. So it was a trip down memory lane.
Published 4 days ago by English Lady
Little Black Sambo
My dad read me this book as a bedtime story each night when I was three to four years old, I just loved listening about Little Black Sambo and his beautiful new clothes. Read more
Published 1 month ago by Ruth Robinson
Memories
Friends were at my home and we happened to be talking abou6t our childhood and books and this particular one was mentioned - it was a mute point whether the tiger got his stripes... Read more
Published 2 months ago by Elizabeth Glenn
little black sambo
great little book used to read it to my son in the 1970's now reading to his son's.had no idea that it was still in print. many thanks.
Published 2 months ago by Misssandra Amcweeney
Little Black Sambo
I remembered this book from my childhood in the 1950s and assumed it would be out of print as it could be perceived as having some non-PC language, in spite of its funny ending. Read more
Published 3 months ago by janet
Fab - Made my mother in laws christmas
My mother in law recently found a book she read as a child and then told us the story of her favorite book as a child little black sambo and assumed you would not be able to get it... Read more
Published 4 months ago by Emma
perfect condition
the book arrived to me in perfect condition as described. it was delivered in good time and was packaged really well
Published 8 months ago by sammie
brilliant story!
Sambo's devoted parents get him a new outfit (love Bannerman's use of capital letters throughout for these items; a Lovely Little Pair of Purple Shoes with Crimson Soles and... Read more
Published 10 months ago by sally tarbox
My mum loved it!
Got this for my mum as a surprise, shes been looking for this book for ages , she read it at school as a kid.
Published 11 months ago by Maddi
jaded adults and the pc brigade....... NOT
I have read what some of the other reviewers have had to say about the book but I would point out that the title of the book is not 'The Little Boy Who Played With The Tigers' but... Read more
Published on 8 May 2008 by Sweet Eye
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