How the Leopard Got His Spots - Hardcover

Kipling, Rudyard

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0802761127 ISBN 13: 9780802761125

Publisher: Walker & Co, 1973

Synopsis

Actor Danny Glover reads Kipling's classic story about how the hungry leopard got the spots that make such an effective camouflage, in a storybook enhanced by music from Ladysmith Black Mambazo.

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About the Author

Shoo Rayner is the author and illustrator of many well-loved books, including THE GINGER NINJA and RICKY ROCKET series.

From School Library Journal

The best thing about this book-and-recording package is the evocative Ladysmith Black Mambazo vocal group providing background on the cassette. Nothing else quite measures up. The narrator's low and sibilant reading is sometimes effective but often difficult to understand unless you are reading along. The chief feature of the sinuous, wildly colored fauvist illustrations is the remarkably unattractive figure of the Ethiopian, who appears to be a victim of advanced elephantiasis, bloating his torso and lower limbs. The eponymous leopard looks rather more like a dog (like Lassie, in fact, in the opening spread) than a cat. Color cues explicitly supplied by Kipling are disregarded ("chestnut blotches" become Chinese red, pink, and white; "black spots" are entirely red and lilac). Leopards, Ethiopians, and the Just-So stories deserve better. --Patricia Dooley, University of Washington, Seattle
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Edition details

• Publisher: Walker & Co
• Publication date: 1973
• ISBN 10: 0802761127
• ISBN 13: 9780802761125
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 32