How the Leopard Got His Spots (Just So Stories) - Softcover

Kipling, Rudyard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1497392853 ISBN 13: 9781497392854

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2014

Synopsis

Original and unabridged text of Rudyard Kipling's timeless classic. With refreshingly new illustrations.

If you have ever asked,
"how did the camel get his hump?"
If you have ever wondered,
"how did the leopard get his spots?"

Then you are a very special kind of curious person who will love the answers in these books.

About this title

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: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1497392853
• ISBN 13: 9781497392854
• Binding: Paperback
• Illustrator: Bailey Heather
• Number of pages: 34