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Little Black Sambo | 
| Author: Helen Bannerman
Publisher: Ragged Bears
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  16 reviews
Sales Rank: 15953
Media: Hardcover
Edition: New Ed
Pages: 62
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Dimensions (in): 5.4 x 3.9 x 0.3
ISBN: 1857141261
EAN: 9781857141269
ASIN: 1857141261
Publication Date: January 3, 1998
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 jaded adults and the pc brigade....... NOT May 8, 2008
10 out of 20 found this review helpful
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 'Little Black Sambo'. It is extremely naive to think that the story is charming without any reference to the historical context in which the words, that make up the title of this book, were originally used. The story would be charming if it were a story of a little boy and some tigers but it is not. Would the same reviewers be as happy to pass on the same book if the title was 'Little Black N*****'. There would be no distinction, in the use of either title, to any person of African descent and to think otherwise is both patronising and insensitive in the extreme. To say that the author means no harm is impossible given that she has as another title 'The Story of Little Black Mingo' which indicates that the author's preoccupation with race and the charicaturization of an entire race is, I would argue, neither innocent nor unintentional. I will not allow my child to read this story nor would I willingly enter a room with some of the reviewers who have used this forum to perpetuate the prejudices of an earlier age. I am saddened they continue to think that it is alright to legitimize ideas that have always been morally bankrupt in the name of nostalgia. It is not a nostalgia that any moral person can share. Words are culturally important and are used to convey ideas about the people that they describe and this everyday phenomena can be observed in the language of racists who use such words to cause offence and as a means of misdescribing and dehumanizing an entire race of people. Children who have these types of books read to them cannot then be blamed for confusing fiction with reality.
 The best story ever....... February 20, 2008
3 out of 8 found this review helpful
This is simply the best book ever. It's a lovely little story which takes no time to read but it has reason and poignance. I LOVE little Black Sambo and his family, and I would love to sit round the tea table and share pancakes with them - they are part of my life and have been for well over 40 years! This is nothing to do with political correctness - it was written a long time before PC was invented and should be treated as such. Long live Little Black Sambo, the Robertsons Golly and all the other memories of our childhood.
still crazy after all these years December 30, 2007
7 out of 15 found this review helpful
I felt uncomfortable as a Black/Native American child w/this book when I was young and even more disgusted now. Although the story DID have a good out come for "Black Sambo" (ie the tigers became butter; I could never understand why the names of people were predicated by the adjective "Black". Sambo's parent's didn't even have names, for Heaven's sake. They were called Black mom (Mombo) and Black Dad (Jumbo). As a child of the 60's; "who knew nothing about "political correctness", at the time, it just felt disturbing to me. MY parents had names and so did the parents of the other kids in my class (some of whom were white); none of whose names started with White, Indian Asian, etc.
Thus, I was embarassed to hear/read this story in public. Glad it's gone. I don't think the young children I see as a therapist are missing a thing by not hearing/seeing this story.
nostalgia October 23, 2007
3 out of 7 found this review helpful
I have just purchased this book for my 61 yr old mother as a christmas gift. She read it as a child as did I, and we both love the idea of the little boy outwitting the tigers. Chatting recently about children and grand-children the subject of books came up and she mentioned how she had loved this book but said because of the P.C brigade she didn't think it was available, I think she will be plesantly surprised this Christmas.
A lovely story September 24, 2007
4 out of 8 found this review helpful
My daughter bought me this book for my 51st birthday as it was a favourite of mine as a child. It brought back lovely memories and I really enjoyed reading through it again. It's just a delightful childrens story and you can't fail to be enchanted by it. I read it to my granddaughter (aged 7) and she loved it too, so take no notice of the 'pc' brigade, just enjoy it for what it is, a nice kids story.
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