LITTLE BLACK SAMBO; THE ENLARGED PICTURE EDITION by HELEN BANNERMAN - 1945

CHICAGO: ALBERT WHITMAN & CO., 1945 RARE BOOK, BEAUTIFUL COVER AND ARTWORK THROUGHOUT. LIGHT BROWN COVER, COLORFUL PICTURE WITH SAMBO AND TIGER. BLACK PRINT FRONT AND SPINE, FORMER OWNER LABLE INSIDE FRONT, BLACK AND WHITE DESIGN INSIDE FRONT AND BACK COVERS. TIGHT AND CLEAN THROUGHOUT. PART OF PREFACE: THERE IS VERY LITTLE TO SAY ABOUT THE STORY OF LITTLE BLACK SAMBO. ONCE UPON A TIME THERE WAS AN ENGLISH LADY IN INDIA, WHERE BLACK CHILDREN ABOUND AND TIGERS ARE EVERYDAY AFFAIRS, WHO HAD TWO LITTLE GIRLS. TO AMUSE THESE LITTLE GIRLS SHE WOULD NOW AND THEN, INVENT STORIES, FOR WHICH, BEING EXTREMELY TALENTED, SHE ALSO DREW AND COLORED THE PICTURES. TERRIFIC BOOK AND PART OF HISTORY. Helen Brodie Cowan Bannerman (née Watson; 25 February 1862 – 13 October 1946) was a Scottish author of children's books. She is best known for her first book, Little Black Sambo (1899). The Story of Little Black Sambo is a children's book written and illustrated by Scottish author Helen Bannerman and published by Grant Richards in October 1899. As one in a series of small-format books called The Dumpy Books for Children, the story was popular for more than half a century. Critics of the time observed that Bannerman presents one of the first black heroes in children's literature and regarded the book as positively portraying black characters in both the text and pictures, especially in comparison to books of that era that depicted blacks as simple and uncivilised. ANTIQUE BOOKS DEN, WHERE INTERESTING BOOKS LIVE.