Reddit reviews Sam and the Tigers: A Retelling of 'Little Black Sambo' (Picture Puffins)
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I looked into it a bit further, and it is indeed in [Sam and the Tigers] (http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0140562885) by Julius Lester that Sam tells one of the tigers who is threatening to eat him, "If you do, it'll send your cholesterol way up."
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Little Black Sambo was "reclaimed" by the brilliant African American, artist Jerry Pinkney, and retold (by Julius Lester) as Sam and the Tigers.