Counting Leopard's Spots: And Other Animal Stories - Hardcover

Oram, Hiawyn

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1888444312 ISBN 13: 9781888444315

Publisher: Little Tiger Pr, 1998

Synopsis

A collection of folktales from Africa, introducing a wide variety of animals

About this title

About the Author

Hiawyn Oram grew up in South Africa. After graduating in English and Drama from the University of Kwa Zulu Natal, she worked as an advertising copywriter before becoming a full-time writer. She's written more than a 100 children's books starting with the old classic ANGRY ARTHUR Illustrated by Satoshi Kitamura, now an ebook by MEBOOKS. Her work has been published in more than 30 languages including Russian and Chinese, Turkish, Slovak and Polish and won or been short-listed for several awards. She also writes poetry, script and lyrics for musicals and has developed and written for animated TV. Dreamworks in the US have optioned her series starring Rumblewick, an overworked cat to a reluctant witch, as the inspiration for an animated movie. THE VACKEES, a musical for which she wrote the words, is regularly performed across the country and LAST TRAIN TO TOMORROW, about the rescue of 10,000 Jewish children from the holocaust, was performed by the Halle Orchestra, junior choir and actors to standing ovation. Her favourite children's book ever is THE SECRET GARDEN by F.H. Burnett and her vote for best children's movie goes to Disney's JUNGLE BOOK, narrowly pipping KUNG FU PANDA to the post. Hiawyn lives in London where, when not writing, she can be found inventing games for grandchildren and getting messy covering canvasses in paint.

From School Library Journal

Kindergarten-Grade 4-This handsome offering features 10 stories that are said to be from Africa. In them, children will find tricksters, cautionary tales, pourquoi stories, situations in which size and speed are overcome by cunningness, and instances where vanity is punished. Each story, presented in large typeface, ranges in length from 8-to-11 pages. Most of the tales read aloud well, and the watercolor paintings that grace every page are expressive, nicely capturing the characters and their environs. Unfortunately, there is nary a hint of where or from whom the author obtained these tales, rendering this title to additional-purchase status at best. Verna Aardema's Misoso: Once Upon a Time Tales from Africa (Knopf, 1994), Virginia Hamilton's A Ring of Tricksters: Animal Tales from America, the West Indies, and Africa (Scholastic, 1997), and Naomi Adler's The Dial Book of Animal Tales from around the World (Dial, 1996) all have more documentation.
Tom S. Hurlburt, La Crosse Public Library, WI
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Edition details

• Publisher: Little Tiger Pr
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 1888444312
• ISBN 13: 9781888444315
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 96
• Illustrator: Warnes Tim