Usborne Series: The Leopard And The Sky God (Usborne First Reading Level 3)

'This story is about the Sky God, the leopard, his drum, the python, the elephant and the tortoise.
Long ago, when the world was new, the animals lived in the forest.
High up above lived the Sky God.
One day, the Sky God heard a wonderful sound.
He leaned down and looked through the trees.
There was the leopard, playing a great drum..........'

But the leopard is reluctant to share his drum......with the Sky God, or anything else which tries to persuade him......for that matter,
until the tortoise successfully uses some reverse psychology and is suitably rewarded!

'The Leopard and the Sky God is a very old story from the Asante kingdom in West Africa,(now in the country of Ghana).'