Helen Bannerman - The Story of Little Black Sambo

Pros: Artwork.
Cons: It is Little Black Sambo after all...

...Perhaps no other published story carries as much racially-charged baggage as does The Story of Little Black Sambo. Especially for a children's story..!!Written in the British Imperial India of the 1890s and published in ...

Pros: Incredible illustrations. Wonderful story.
Cons: The baggage that comes with the book. The character names which still may offend.

I'm Jewish. When we were little, we had friends who were Catholic in our neighborhood. My sister and I were born in the U.S.A. We used to play with children in the neighborhood who had been born in Mexican, Israel, Korea and Japan. We were white. We had ...