Books with title Little Black Sambo

By the Scottish author of a number of children's books, the most famous being Little Black Sambo. She lived for a good proportion of her life in India, where her husband was an officer in the Indian Medical Service. The story takes place in a fairy tale India where a little boy outwits the predators in his world, to return safely home and eat 169 pancakes for his supper. It was a children's favourite for half a century.

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 colourful 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.

Sambo is a black boy who encounters four hungry tigers who demand that he surrender his colorful new clothes, shoes, and umbrella or they say they will eat him. What will poor Sambo do? This story has been a children's favorite for over a century. First written in 1899, it has become a childhood classic and the authorized American edition with the original drawings by the author has sold hundreds of thousands of copies.