The Story of Little Black Sambo, a childrens book by Helen Bannerman, a Scot (Scotland) who lived for 32 years in Madras in southern India, was first published in London in 1899. (An American edition of the book was illustrated by Florence White Williams.) In the tale, an Indian boy named Sambo prevails over a group of hungry tigers. The little boy has to give his colourful new clothes, shoes, and umbrella to four tigers so they will not eat him. Sambo recovers the clothes when the jealous, conceited tigers chase each other around a tree until they are reduced to a pool of delicious melted butter. The story was a childrens favourite for half a century, but then became controversial (controversy) due to the use of the word sambo (Sambo (racial term)), a racial slur in some countries, and the illustrations, which are reminiscent of "darky iconography".