"The Story of Little Black Sambo" is a children's book by Helen Bannerman, a Scottish author who wrote a number of children's books. She lived for a good proportion of her life in India, where her husband was an officer in the Indian Medical Service.

Set in a fairy tale India, "Little Black Sambo" tells the story of a little boy who has to sacrifice to tigers his new red coat and his new blue trousers and his new purple shoes- which the tiger wears on his ears- but he outwits the predators in his world, to return safely home and eat 169 pancakes for his supper.