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I remember the book when I was a lad in the very early '50s, and it was a favorite of mine. When my daughters were small, it was still in print. I have a copy with the original illustrations that I picked up then. My kids enjoyed it a few times, but it was never a favorite of theirs. A pity that it's considered so politically incorrect -- it was indeed about India, as the reference to the tigers and ghi (for butter) should make obvious to anyone but (as Lord Russell put it) an unusually stupid child of ten.

20 posted on 09/14/2009 7:29:58 PM PDT by CatoRenasci (Ceterum Censeo Arabiam Esse Delendam -- Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit)

Then we are close in age because it was 1952 when I was 3.

(as Lord Russell put it) an unusually stupid child of ten.

Yeah...that pretty much describes all the Liberals of today!

23 posted on 09/14/2009 7:41:27 PM PDT by boatbums ("A man who spits in the wind, is spitting in his own face," B. Franklin)