Helen Bannerman
Author
Publisher
Project Gutenberg
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
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....
Author
Series
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a little boy named Rajani ventures into the jungle, he runs into several tigers who make him give them his fine new red coat, blue trousers, purple shoes with crimson linings, and even his green umbrella! But Rajani outsmarts the tigers in the end, in this kinder retelling of Helen Bannerman’s Little Black Sambo. New illustrations and non-offensive names and character depictions make this story lovable again.
Author
Language
English
Description
Once upon a time there was a little black girl, and her name was Little Black Mingo. She had no father and mother, so she had to live with a horrid cross old woman called Black Noggy, who used to scold her every day, and sometimes beat her with a stick, even though she had done nothing naughty. So Little Black Mingo took the chatty and ran down to the river as fast as she could, and began to fill it with water...
Author
Series
Platt and Munk classic ; 117
Publisher
Platt & Munk
Pub. Date
[1962]
Language
English
Description
A little boy in India loses his fine new clothes to the tigers, but while they dispute who is the grandest tiger in the jungle, he takes his fine clothes back again.