THE STORY OF LITTLE BLACK SAMBO [Signed by Christopher Bing]

Bannerman, Helen; Bing, Christopher [Illustrations]

ISBN 10: 1929766556 / ISBN 13: 9781929766550

Published by Handprint Books, New York, 2003

About this Item

Quarto, [30] pages. In Very Good condition with a Very Good dust jacket. In full red paper binding, patterned to look like sunned cloth binding, with matching dust jacket. Yellow titling along spine. Jacket is wrapped in an archival mylar sleeve. Some scuffing to sleeve. Jacket shows light shelving wear. Price unclipped: "$17.95". Boards are lightly rubbed along the edges and at the corners, with mild bumping at the tail of the spine. Text block clean. Inscribed on the front flyleaf by Christopher Bing to Susan and Neil Sheehan: "To Susan and Neil Sheehan / May you journey through the jungle of life together with Wit, Wisdom, Courage, and Joy / With Best Wishes from / Christopher Bing / Lexington MA, 8/23/2007". . Second Story Books is honored to offer this item from the personal collection of Neil and Susan Sheehan. Neil Sheehan (1936-2021) and Susan Sheehan (1937-2026) were a distinguished husband-and-wife team whose careers helped define American literary journalism in the second half of the twentieth century. Neil Sheehan, a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for The New York Times, is best known for his role in bringing the Pentagon Papers to public attention and for his landmark book "A Bright Shining Lie", while Susan Sheehan built a parallel reputation as a leading voice at The New Yorker, crafting deeply reported narrative nonfiction on subjects ranging from mental health to social institutions, earning her own Pulitzer Prize in 1983. Their longstanding ties to major publications, particularly The New Yorker, placed them at the center of an influential cultural and intellectual network, and the books from their library carry added provenance through this close connection to the magazine's editorial and artistic community. 1413874. Special Collections - Upstairs.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: THE STORY OF LITTLE BLACK SAMBO [Signed by Christopher Bing]
• Publisher: Handprint Books, New York
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1929766556
• ISBN 13: 9781929766550
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Bing, Christopher
• Edition: First Edition, First Printing.
• Dust Jacket Condition: dj
• Signed: Signed
• Seller catalogs:
  • Literature

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Synopsis

A remarkable celebration from the Caldecott Honor-winning artist! A clever young boy outwits a band of voracious tigers and returns home in triumph to a splendid feast of a yard-high stack of pancakes. The story, penned by Helen Brodie Bannerman for her two daughters in 1889, has captured the imagination of readers around the world and across many generations. But the pictures which accompanied her text were crudely stereotypical and hurtful to many. Caldecott Honor-winning artist Christopher Bing has spent almost fifteen years rediscovering the joy and energy of the original story. He respects that Bannerman was writing in an Indian setting and with Indian animals after all, there are no tigers in Africa and faithfully adheres to the original text. However, recognizing that the image of Sambo has been used as a symbol of repression of Africans and African-Americans, Christopher Bing celebrates Sambo as proudly African, a child of beauty and joy, wit and resourcefulness. In recreating the illusion of an antique, weathered, tiger-clawed storybook filled with exquisitely detailed paintings that draw upon a lush jungle-inspired palette, Christopher Bing s interpretation of Sambo s world seamlessly melds a grand sense of wonder with the minutiae of nature, and a story with history.

About the Author

Helen Bannerman (1862-1946) was born in Scotland. The daughter of a chaplain who was posted to foreign countries, she lived for over thirty years in India. She married a doctor in the Indian Medical Service, and they had two daughters. The Story Of Little

Christopher Bing Christopher Bing, whose first book, "Casey at the Bat," was named a 2001 Caldecott Honor Book, lives with his wife and three children in Lexington, Massachusetts, in a house directly on the Freedom Trail, the route on which Paul Revere rode on that fateful night of April 18th, two hundred twenty-six years ago.