Kpo the Leopard (original French title: Kpo la panthère) is an African wildlife story about a female leopard cub written by the French children's writer René Guillot^[1] (1900–1969), who lived, worked and travelled for much of his life in French Africa.^[2]

Set initially in the African jungle, the story moves, after Kpo and her mother escape from a forest fire, to new hunting-grounds in the African Plain, and tells the story of Kpo's adventures as she matures into a full-grown leopard.^[1]

Kpo the Leopard was published in 1955^[1] and, twenty years later, was included in The Hamish Hamilton Book of Wise Animals,^[2] together with pieces featuring "fabulous animals" such as Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven, E. Nesbit's Psammead, T. S. Eliot's Mr. Mistoffelees, and Rollicum Bitem the Fox by John Masefield.^[2]