How Many Spots Does a Leopard Have?: An African Folktale (Folktales from Around the World)

ISBN 10: 1614732175 ISBN 13: 9781614732174

Publisher: Childs World Inc, 2012

Synopsis

Leopard offers a special prize to the one who can count all of his beautiful spots, and is disappointed to find that many animals cannot count.

About this title

From Booklist:

Prepare to be whisked away to foreign lands in the Folktales from around the World series. Each title presents a story native to a particular country or continent through simple text (which begins with “Once upon a time” or “Many years ago”) and illustrations that stylistically represent the culture. In the African folktale How Many Spots Does a Leopard Have?, a vain leopard asks various animals—including a tortoise, a monkey, and an eagle—to count his spots, but none can keep track or count high enough until Jackal comes up with a solution. A world map, with the featured country highlighted and labeled, appears at the end of each entry along with a one-page afterword that explains common characteristics of folktales, from the prevalence of magical elements to their moralistic nature, as well as basic country facts. A nice introduction to the oral storytelling tradition for both classroom settings and one-on-one sharing. Grades K-3. --Ann Kelley

About this edition

• Publisher: Childs World Inc
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1614732175
• ISBN 13: 9781614732174
• Binding: Library Binding
• Number of pages: 24
• Illustrator: Zunon Elizabeth