[[Image:lbs.jpg|thumb|right|200px| the original cover of Little Black Sambo.]]
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[[Image:lbs.jpg|thumb|right|300px| the original cover of Little Black Sambo.]]
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The Story of Little Black Sambo is a short [[children]]'s book<ref>It has only 1,089 words.</ref> by Helen Bannerman. Helen was a [[Scottish]] national. The book was first published in 1899 and features the hero, Sambo, outwitting a hungry tigers to return safely home where he eats 169 [[pancakes]] for his supper.
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The Story of Little Black Sambo is a [[children]]'s book by Helen Bannerman, a [[Scottish]] author. The book was first published in 1899 and features the hero, Sambo, outwitting a group of hungry tigers to return safely home where he eats 169 [[pancakes]] for his supper.
The story takes place in a mythical India and the tigers racing around the tree are turned into [[ghee]], an [[Indian]] form of [[butter]].
The story takes place in a mythical India and the tigers racing around the tree are turned into [[ghee]], an [[Indian]] form of [[butter]].