Her characters - Little Black Sambo, his mother, Black Mumbo, and father, Black Jumbo - have silly, demeaning names. The story has been considered repugnant by many because Bannerman's original drawings depict very dark people with thick red lips and wide white eyes. The boy reclaims his clothes and takes the butter home to his mother, who cooks a batch of pancakes. They begin to chase one another round and round the tree trunk, going faster and faster until they melt into a pool of clarified butter. The tigers get into a cat fight over who is the grandest.
To dissuade them, he offers each a different accouterment. He goes for a walk in the jungle where he encounters talking tigers that wish to eat him. In case you've forgotten, the original book of only several hundred words and 27 pictures tells of a young boy whose parents give him some fancy clothes - a beautiful red coat, blue trousers, a green umbrella and purple-and-crimson shoes. So it's slightly weird that in a moment of publishing synchronicity, two new versions of the story go on sale this month. "The Story of Little Black Sambo," written and illustrated by Helen Bannerman in 1899, is considered by many readers to be racist beyond repair.
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