Once I read a story about a leopard. To introduce the

book, I told the children about leopards and

emphasized their lovely spots. I must have said the words

“leopards” and “spots” twenty times. When I started the 

first page, which showed the leopard, and said “Once there

was a leopard,” a little boy called out excitedly, “It’s a tiger!!”

Another time, I was reading the same book to a different

group and at the end, one little girl said, “I loved that

leprechaun!”