The Humpherys Family

Little Black Sambo

Record Added: 10/26/2019
Author 
Illustrator 
Setting India
Topic Children's Fiction, Class
 Antique or Collectible
Publisher Simon and Schuster
Year 1948
Age 4-8   Pages 42
Description Printed binding
 
Sambo is a South Indian boy who lives with his father and mother, named Black Jumbo and Black Mumbo, respectively. While out walking, Sambo encounters four hungry tigers, and surrenders his colorful new clothes, shoes, and umbrella so they will not eat him.

The tigers are vain and each thinks he is better dressed than the others. They chase each other around a tree until they are reduced to a pool of ghee (clarified butter). Sambo then recovers his clothes and collects the ghee, which his mother uses to make pancakes.
Notes
From Cornerstone Gifts and Antiques in Salmon, Idaho, Conference Weekend, Oct. 2019.
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