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The Alexandra Picture Book

Source

University of Florida’s Baldwin Library of Historical Children’s Literature

Baldwin Call #

Baldwin Call #23h3144

Description

This book, published one year after the release of Helen Bannerman’s  The Story of Little Black Sambo, features a one-page story entitled “Little Sambo.” In this story, the titular character attempts to get a pail of milk, but he instead spills it on himself. Like many stories from the period, this text attempts to derive humor from the clumsiness of black people.

Creator

No author attributed

Contributor(s) 

No illustrator attributed

Publisher 

Frederick Warne & Co

Publication Date

1900

Format 

136 pages; mixture of colored and black and white illustrations; 21 cm.

Language

English

 

Posted in Racist Periphery Children's Books