小黑森巴歷險記

by Helen Bannerman, 海倫.班尼曼, 張惠凌 (Translator)

　　小黑森巴穿上媽媽送的紅外套、藍褲子，拿著爸爸給的綠傘出門探險。

　　有四隻黃色老虎要吃小黑森巴，可是小黑森巴把身上的紅外套、藍褲子、藍鞋、紅傘送給那四隻老虎，求他們「不要吃他」。後來，四隻老虎碰見了，展開一場森林爭霸戰，彼此互不相讓，在一棵椰子樹下轉圈追逐互咬，結果越跑越快，黃色的身體逐漸溶化成黃色的奶油。小黑森巴躲在樹後目睹一切經過，森巴爸爸剛好經過，就用手上提的水桶，裝滿老虎奶油得意洋洋地回家，讓媽媽用老虎奶油煎了香噴噴、呈現老虎條紋的煎餅，小黑森巴一口氣就吃掉169片。……

160 pages, Paperback

Published January 10, 2006

About the author

Helen Bannerman (born Brodie Cowan Watson) was the Scottish author of a number of children's books, the most famous being Little Black Sambo. She was born in Edinburgh and, because women were not admitted as students into British Universities, she sat external examinations set by the University of St. Andrews and attained the qualification of LLA. She lived for a good proportion of her life in India, where her husband was an officer in the Indian Medical Service.

The heroes of many of her books are recognizably south Indian or Tamil children from the illustrations. However, despite the plots having no really racist overtones and usually celebrating the intelligence and ingenuity of the children, the name Sambo has become a slur against people of colour and the books have often been banned or censored. As a result of this controversy, a politically correct version co-authored by Fred Marcellino, The Story of Little Babaji, changed the names of the main characters.