Sam And the Tigers: A Retelling of 'Little Black Sambo' (Library Edition) - Hardcover

Pinkney, Jerry; Lester, Julius

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0803720297 ISBN 13: 9780803720299

Publisher: Puffin, 1996

Synopsis

Young Sam and the animals live and work happily together in a land called Sam-sam-sa-mara, not knowing they are not supposed to do that, in an imaginative retelling of the controversial story of Little Black Sambo.

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Review:

"Lester's wit . . . makes the story fresh and funny; Pinkney's watercolors have vitality and, in the tigers, magnificence".

-- The Horn Book

About the Author:

Julius Lester is a celebrated author whose accolades include a Newbery Honor and a Coretta Scott King Award. He is also a National Book Award Finalist, a National Book Critics Circle nominee, and a recipient of the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award. In addition to his critically acclaimed writing career, Mr. Lester has distinguished himself as a civil rights activist, musician, photographer, radio talk-show host, and professor. For thirty-two years he taught at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He lives in western Massachusetts.

Jerry Pinkney is one of America's most admired children's book illustrators. He has won the Caldecott Medal and five Caldecott Honor Medals, five Coretta Scott King Awards, five New York Times Ten Best Illustrated Awards, the Society of Illustrators' Original Art Show Lifetime Achievement Award, and many other prizes and honors. Recently a member of the National Council of the Arts and inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, he has also served on the U.S. Postal Service Citizens Stamp Advisory Committee. His artwork has been exhibited in galleries and museums throughout the country, including the Art Institute of Chicago, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Schomburg Center, and the Norman Rockwell Museum. Jerry Pinkney lives with his wife, author Gloria Jean Pinkney, in Westchester County, New York.

About this edition

• Publisher: Puffin
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0803720297
• ISBN 13: 9780803720299
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 40