The Story of Little Black Mingo

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Title: The Story of Little Black Mingo
Author: Helen Bannerman
Publisher: Dodo Press
Year: 2006 (reprint; 1901 0r 1902 original)
48 pages

Read as a Dodo Press electronic download.

For whatever the observation is worth, Mingo, like Bannerman's more well-known Little Black Sambo, takes place in India; the "black" does not refer to Africans. Like Sambo, Mingo is a child who outsmarts an aggressive animal. In this case, it's an Indian crocodile (the Mugger, Crocodylus palustris) whose fate makes turning into butter seem benign. Illustrations by Bannerman.