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The story of Little Babaji / Helen Bannerman ; illustrated by Fred Marcellino.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bannerman, Helen, 1862-1946.
- Standardized Title:
- Story of Little Black Sambo
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Tiger--Juvenile fiction.
- Tiger.
- India--Juvenile fiction.
- India.
- Tigers--Fiction.
- India--Fiction.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Juvenile works.
- Penn Provenance:
- Tehon, Atha (former owner) (Tehon Collection copy)
- Tehon, Susan (donor)
- Physical Description:
- 72 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 18 cm
- Edition:
- [First edition].
- Place of Publication:
- [New York] : HarperCollins Publishers, [1996]
- Summary:
- A retelling of the well-known tale in which a little Indian boy finally outwits the succession of tigers that want to eat him.
- Notes:
- "Michael di Capua Books."
- "First Edition, 1996."
- Designed by Atha Tehon.
- Green 'crepe paper' endpapers.
- "Helen Bannerman, who lived in India for thirty years, wrote and illustrated 'The Story of Little Black Sambo' (1899), a story that clearly takes place in India, with its tigers and 'ghi' (or melted butter). For this edition of Bannerman's story, the little boy, his mother and his father have been given authentic Indian names."--Colophon.
- American Library Association Notable Children's Book 1997
- Local Notes:
- Tehon Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Susan Tehon.
- Tehon Collection copy: dust jacket retained.
- ISBN:
- 0062050648
- 9780062050649
- 0062050656
- 9780062050656
- OCLC:
- 35618118
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
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