Baldwin Call #23p459
Source
University of Florida’s Baldwin Library of Historical Children’s Literature
Description
This version retains Bannerman’s original text, but it features new illustrations created by Marjorie Romyns. This version portrays the characters more realistically than many other adaptations, but Romyns’s versions of the characters still have some minstrelsy traits, such as exaggerated, protruding red lips. Unlike other adaptations, Romyns’ characters are dressed in a typical 1940s fashion, rather than grossly stereotypical African fashions. Curiously, Sambo and his family live in a grass hut with wooden floors and other modern conveniences at the time (a sewing machine, and dangerously, a stove despite the flammability of their house).
Creator
Helen Bannerman
Contributor(s)
Illustrated by Marjorie Romyns
Publisher
The Harrison Co.
Publication Date
1945
Format
32 pages; colored illustrations; 20 cm.
Language
English