How Many Spots Does a Leopard Have?: A Retelling of the Classic Traditional Tale
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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. Wendy M. Smith-D'Arezzo - Children's Literature Leopard wanders around the jungle trying to find an animal that can count his spots. Or is it a jungle? One of the animals leopard encounters is a brown bear, complete with a heavy coat of fur, not exactly conducive to life in the jungle. Billed as a folk tale, this is more like an artificial story written to fit into a contrived format for early readers. The language is stilted and the setting is not authentic. None of the animals seem to have any positive characteristics and the ending is abrupt, leaving the reader hanging. The pictures are simple line drawings of anthropomorphized animals. In all but a few cases, the illustrator fails to show emotion on the faces of the animals; contentment, anger, and sadness all look the same on the face of the leopard. There are many real folktales that have come out of Africa that can be retold in a more authentic fashion. This book is part of the "Read It Readers" series-yellow level. 2005, Picture Window Books, Ages 4 to 8.
\ Children's LiteratureLeopard wanders around the jungle trying to find an animal that can count his spots. Or is it a jungle? One of the animals leopard encounters is a brown bear, complete with a heavy coat of fur, not exactly conducive to life in the jungle. Billed as a folk tale, this is more like an artificial story written to fit into a contrived format for early readers. The language is stilted and the setting is not authentic. None of the animals seem to have any positive characteristics and the ending is abrupt, leaving the reader hanging. The pictures are simple line drawings of anthropomorphized animals. In all but a few cases, the illustrator fails to show emotion on the faces of the animals; contentment, anger, and sadness all look the same on the face of the leopard. There are many real folktales that have come out of Africa that can be retold in a more authentic fashion. This book is part of the "Read It Readers" series-yellow level. 2005, Picture Window Books, Ages 4 to 8. \ —Wendy M. Smith-D'Arezzo\ \
