How the Leopard Got His Spots

Written by Rudyard Kipling

Narrated by Cathy Dobson

Kipling’s classic tale taken from the Just So Stories. Leopard is having trouble finding the other animals in the forest because they have camouflaged themselves. But he soon learns the advantages of having a patterned hide.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Red Door Consulting
• Release date: Feb 25, 2011
• ISBN: 9781467667845

Rudyard Kipling

Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) was an English author and poet who began writing in India and shortly found his work celebrated in England. An extravagantly popular, but critically polarizing, figure even in his own lifetime, the author wrote several books for adults and children that have become classics, Kim, The Jungle Book, Just So Stories, Captains Courageous and others. Although taken to task by some critics for his frequently imperialistic stance, the author’s best work rises above his era’s politics. Kipling refused offers of both knighthood and the position of Poet Laureate, but was the first English author to receive the Nobel prize.

Reviews for How the Leopard Got His Spots

[robertalea-223265 · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

I do enjoy a good Kipling story. BUT my all-time favorite would have to "How the Elephant Got Its Trunk." It's hard to beat the adventures of the baby elephant with the 'satiable curiosity' who travels along the Limpopo River.

[avcr_1 · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

A South African tale about why animals and people look the way they do. When Leopard and Ethiopian drive the animals off the high veldt, because they are all so visible being, exclusively yellowish, grayish, brownish, and hunt them at will, the animals walk for days until they find the forest of flora and fauna, enter and change their skins to match the forest. When Ethiopian and Leopard become so hungry that they eat rats and beetles and give themselves a tummy ache they ask Pavian, the wisest, for advice. Pavian tells Ethiopian he must change, and Leopard must find his spots. They travel, find the forest, enter, can smell and hear Zebra and Giraffe, but cannot see them. They finally learn the secret of change and adaptation, and to this day, you can see the five fingerprints on Leopard where his friend Ethiopian helped him change.If You Liked This, Try: How the Camel Got His Hump by L. Zwerger, The Elephant’s Child by Rudyard Kipling, American Tall Tales by Mary Pope Osborne.