"the leopard/elephant/camel got its spots/trunk/hump"". Held's ability to captivate the reader's imagination compares to the mischievousness of Kipling's pourquoi stories,"" but the reader, ""is also encouraged to extrapolate from general principles by the constant reminder that animals use a conserved set of developmental genes to construct their bodies."" Martin finds evo-devo fascinating, ""inherently colorful and well placed to fulfill the dual goal of etiological myths: explaining origins and causes while also stirring imagination and awe. Overall, the latest opus by Lewis Held Jr. fits that niche nicely, and shines by its ability to span essential concepts and empirical work with"
"The Leopard's Spots The Leopard's Spots is the first novel of Thomas Dixon's Ku Klux Klan trilogy that included """" and ""The Traitor"". In the novel Dixon offers an account of Reconstruction in which he portrays a Reconstruction leader (and former slave driver ), Northern carpetbaggers, and emancipated slaves as the villains; and heroes as members of the Ku Klux Klan. The novel served as one of the sources for D. W. Griffith's ""The Birth of a Nation"". The title refers to a passage from the Biblical Book of Jeremiah 13:23 ""Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard"
"have a career in an art field. Shannon enjoyed making his own illustrations to books that he was reading in high school. Shannon attended art school at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California, and decided to focus on learning about political illustrations. In 1983, Shannon moved to New York City and began working for various magazines and newspapers. Two of his major jobs were for the ""New York Times"" and the ""Book Review"". These jobs brought Shannon's work increased exposure. His first book of illustrations was Julius Lester's ""How Many Spots Does a Leopard Have?"" (1989). Shannon's"
"Thomas Dixon Jr. Thomas Frederick Dixon Jr. (January 11, 1864 – April 3, 1946) was a Southern Baptist minister, playwright, lecturer, politician, lawyer, and author who wrote two early 20th-century novels, ""The Leopard's Spots: A Romance of the White Man's Burden – 1865–1900"" (1902) and ""The Clansman"" (1905), that glorified the Ku Klux Klan's vigilantes, romanticized Southern white supremacy, and opposed the equal rights for blacks during the Reconstruction era. Film director D. W. Griffith adapted ""The Clansman"" for the screen in ""The Birth of a Nation"" (1915), which stimulated the formation of the 20th-century version of the Klan. Dixon"
"The Little Girl Found The Little Girl Found is a poem written by the English poet William Blake. It was published as part of his collection Songs of Experience in 1794. In the poem, the parents of a seven-year-old girl, called Lyca, are looking desperately for their young daughter who is lost in the desert. During days and nights they go on looking for the girl up to the moment they find a lion which tells them where the child lies. All the night in woe Lyca’s parents go Over valleys deep, While the deserts weep. Tired and woe-begone, Hoarse"
"Springs, North Carolina. Public Thomas Dixon Jr. Thomas Frederick Dixon Jr. (January 11, 1864 – April 3, 1946) was a Southern Baptist minister, playwright, lecturer, politician, lawyer, and author who wrote two early 20th-century novels, ""The Leopard's Spots: A Romance of the White Man's Burden – 1865–1900"" (1902) and ""The Clansman"" (1905), that glorified the Ku Klux Klan's vigilantes, romanticized Southern white supremacy, and opposed the equal rights for blacks during the Reconstruction era. Film director D. W. Griffith adapted ""The Clansman"" for the screen in ""The Birth of a Nation"" (1915), which stimulated the formation of the 20th-century version"
"was born in Shelby, North Carolina, the son of Thomas Jeremiah Frederick Dixon II and Amanda Elvira McAfee. Dixon's father, Thomas J. F. Dixon Sr., was a slave-owner, landowner and Baptist minister of English and Scottish paternal descent and German maternal descent. His grandfather, Frederick Hambright (possible namesake for the fictional North Carolina town of Hambright in which ""The Leopard's Spots"" take place), was a German Palatine migrant who fought in both the local militia and in the North Carolina Line of the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War. Dixon Sr. had inherited slaves and property through his first wife's"
"Goblin Feet ""Goblin Feet"" is a poem written in 1915 by J. R. R. Tolkien for Edith Mary Bratt, his wife-to-be, which was published in ""Oxford poetry 1915"" before being reprinted in anthologies such as ""The Book of Fairy Poetry"" (1920): it thus marks Tolkien's first appearance in the capacity of a writer for children. His fiancée, had expressed her liking for “spring and flowers and trees, and little elfin people”, and the poem with its rather twee references to “the tiny horns of enchanted leprechauns...their little happy feet” reflects her preferences. Tolkien himself would later wish that “the unhappy"
"Spots""), and Julie Paschkis (""Head, Body, Legs""; ""Mrs. Chicken and the Hungry Crocodile""; and ""The Talking Vegetables""). Lippert's awards include: The Charlotte Zolotow Honor Award for Outstanding Writing in Picture Books (""Mrs. Chicken and the Hungry Crocodile"", 2004); The Chapman Award for Best Classroom Read-Alouds (""Mrs. Chicken and the Hungry Crocodile"", 2003); American Library Association Notable Children's Book (""Head, Body, Legs"", 2003); Aesop Accolade Award—American Folklore Society (""Head, Body, Legs"", 2002; ""Why Leopard Has Spots"", 1999); Best Book for Older Readers—African Studies Association (""Why Leopard Has Spots"", 1999). Lippert currently resides in Mercer Island, WA, with her husband Alan. Her"
"recurring characters in stories for children throughout the modern era. Lewis Carroll's ""Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"" (1865) contains the poem ""How Doth the Little Crocodile"", a parody of a moralising poem by Isaac Watts, """". In J. M. Barrie's novel ""Peter and Wendy"" (1911), the character Captain Hook has lost his arm to the crocodile. Hook fears the crocodile, but is warned of its approach by the ticking of a clock which it has swallowed. In Rudyard Kipling's ""Just So Stories"" (1902), the Elephant's Child acquires his trunk by having his (short) nose pulled very hard by the Crocodile ""on"
"based. Racism was gaining legitimacy in the decades leading up to Hurston's writing of ""Their Eyes Were Watching God"". Baptist preacher Thomas Dixon, Jr. wrote ""The Leopard's Spots: A Romance of the White Man's Burden"" in 1902, asserting white supremacy amidst supposed African-American evil and corruption. The book was so popular that Dixon wrote a trilogy. His second novel, """", was adapted for the silent film ""The Birth of a Nation"", portraying African-American men in an unintelligent, sexually aggressive light (1915). During the Harlem Renaissance, African-American writers were urged to write toward an Uplift program, to improve the image of"
"ludis et hortis virginibus puerisque"". Part I – A Child's Garden of Verses The Child Alone Garden Days Envoys A Child's Garden of Verses A Child's Garden of Verses is a collection of poetry for children about childhood, illness, play and solitude by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson. The collection first appeared in 1885 under the title Penny Whistles, but has been reprinted many times, often in illustrated versions. It contains about 65 poems including the cherished classics ""Foreign Children,"" ""The Lamplighter,"" ""The Land of Counterpane,"" ""Bed in Summer,"" ""My Shadow"" and ""The Swing."" The classical scholar Terrot Reaveley"
"spotted) asks the Ethiopian man why he does not want spots. In contemporary editions of ""How the Leopard Got His Spots"", the Ethiopian's original reply (""Oh, plain black's best for a nigger"") has been edited to, ""Oh, plain black's best for me."" The counting rhyme known as ""Eenie Meenie Mainee, Mo"" has been attested from 1820, with many variants; when Kipling included it as ""A Counting-Out Song"" in ""Land and Sea Tales for Scouts and Guides"" (1923), he gave as its second line, ""Catch a nigger by the toe!"" This version became widely used for much of the twentieth century;"
"short story, ""Percy and the Shrinking Violet."" The great visual and esthetic triumph in the book, though, is the Leopard with the Changeable Spots. (The other characters call him ""Spots"" for short.) As his title indicates, the markings on his coat change, both randomly and in response to his feelings. They shift ""from pink diamonds, to violet hearts, to spinning pinwheels; and so on and on...from golden snow flakes to silver crosses,"" plus ""green apples"" and ""pink elephants,"" ""red dots"" and ""big, black exclamation marks,"" ""blue moons"" and ""electric lights."" When he's in doubt, he produces ""blue question marks,"" and"
"of his philological interests into his fairy world. Goblin Feet ""Goblin Feet"" is a poem written in 1915 by J. R. R. Tolkien for Edith Mary Bratt, his wife-to-be, which was published in ""Oxford poetry 1915"" before being reprinted in anthologies such as ""The Book of Fairy Poetry"" (1920): it thus marks Tolkien's first appearance in the capacity of a writer for children. His fiancée, had expressed her liking for “spring and flowers and trees, and little elfin people”, and the poem with its rather twee references to “the tiny horns of enchanted leprechauns...their little happy feet” reflects her preferences."
"A Child's Garden of Verses A Child's Garden of Verses is a collection of poetry for children about childhood, illness, play and solitude by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson. The collection first appeared in 1885 under the title Penny Whistles, but has been reprinted many times, often in illustrated versions. It contains about 65 poems including the cherished classics ""Foreign Children,"" ""The Lamplighter,"" ""The Land of Counterpane,"" ""Bed in Summer,"" ""My Shadow"" and ""The Swing."" The classical scholar Terrot Reaveley Glover published a translation of the poems into Latin in 1922 under the title ""Carmina non prius audita de"
"Spot (franchise) Spot is a yellow puppy character created by Eric Hill, an English author and illustrator of children's picture books. The success of Hill's books about Spot led to other media productions, including television and home video titles, music albums and CD-ROM titles. First published in 1980, ""Where's Spot?"" was inspired while Hill was working in creative marketing; he noticed his three-year-old son was fascinated by the process of lifting up a paper, on a design he was creating. Captivated by this thought, Hill created a story about a puppy which incorporated the flap design. During the late 1970s"
"Dixon wrote a stage adaptation of ""The Clansman"" in 1905. In ""The Leopard's Spots"", the Reverend Durham character indoctrinates Charles Gaston, the protagonist with a foulmouthed diatribe of hate speech. One critic notes that the term for marriage, ""the Holy of Holies"", may be a crude euphemism for the vagina. Equally, Dixon's opposition to miscegenation seemed to be as much about confused sexism as it was about racism, as he opposed relationships between white women and black men but not between black women and white men. Another pet hate for Dixon and the focus of his trilogy was socialism: """""
"As a direct result from that experience, Dixon wrote his first novel, ""The Leopard's Spots"" (1902), which uses several characters, including Simon Legree, recycled from Stowe's novel. Dixon's ""Trilogy of Reconstruction"" consisted of ""The Leopard's Spots"" (1902), ""The Clansman"" (1905), and ""The Traitor"" (1907). Dixon's novels were best-sellers in their day, despite being sordid racist parodies of historical romance fiction. They glorify a antebellum American South white supremacist viewpoint. Dixon claimed to oppose slavery, but he espoused racial segregation and vehemently opposed universal suffrage and miscegenation. Dixon's Reconstruction era novels depict Northerners as greedy carpetbaggers and white Southerners as victims."
"Kpo the Leopard Kpo the Leopard is an African wildlife story about a female leopard-cub written by French children's writer René Guillot (1900–1969), who lived, worked and travelled for much of his life in French Africa. 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. ""Kpo the Leopard"" was published in 1955 and, twenty years later, was included in ""The Hamish Hamilton Book of Wise Animals"", together with pieces"
"Three Little Kittens ""Three Little Kittens"" is an English language nursery rhyme, probably with roots in the British folk tradition. The rhyme as published today however is a sophisticated piece usually attributed to American poet Eliza Lee Cabot Follen (1787–1860). With the passage of time, the poem has been absorbed into the ""Mother Goose"" collection. The rhyme tells of three kittens who first lose, then find and soil, their mittens. When all is finally set to rights, the kittens receive their mother's approval and some pie. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 16150. The poem was published"
"director of the publishing company Faber and Faber. Morley's daughter, Susanna Smithson, uncovered the poem as part of the BBC Two programme ""Arena: T.S. Eliot"", broadcast that night as part of the BBC Poetry Season. Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats (1939) is a collection of whimsical poems by T. S. Eliot about feline psychology and sociology, published by Faber and Faber. It is the basis for the musical ""Cats"". Eliot wrote the poems in the 1930s, and included them, under his assumed name ""Old Possum"", in letters to his godchildren. They were collected"
"Kenn Nesbitt Kenn Nesbitt is an American children's poet. On June 11, 2013 he was named Children's Poet Laureate by the Poetry Foundation. He was the last one to receive this title before the Poetry Foundation changed the name to Young People's Poet Laureate. He is a writer of humorous poetry for children, including the books ""My Hippo Has the Hiccups"" and ""Revenge of the Lunch Ladies"". Kenn Nesbitt has collaborated with poet Linda Knaus on one collection of Christmas poems entitled ""Santa Got Stuck in the Chimney"" and with children's musician Eric Herman on several CDs. His poems also"
"The Owl and the Pussycat ""The Owl and the Pussycat"" is a nonsense poem by Edward Lear, first published during 1871 as part of his book ""Nonsense Songs, Stories, Botany, and Alphabets"". Lear wrote the poem for a three-year-old girl, Janet Symonds, the daughter of Lear's friend poet John Addington Symonds and his wife Catherine Symonds. The term ""runcible"", used for the phrase ""runcible spoon"", was invented for the poem. ""The Owl and the Pussycat"" features four anthropomorphic animals – an owl, a cat, a pig, and a turkey – and tells the story of the love between the title"
"also appear in the following anthologies. Kenn Nesbitt Kenn Nesbitt is an American children's poet. On June 11, 2013 he was named Children's Poet Laureate by the Poetry Foundation. He was the last one to receive this title before the Poetry Foundation changed the name to Young People's Poet Laureate. He is a writer of humorous poetry for children, including the books ""My Hippo Has the Hiccups"" and ""Revenge of the Lunch Ladies"". Kenn Nesbitt has collaborated with poet Linda Knaus on one collection of Christmas poems entitled ""Santa Got Stuck in the Chimney"" and with children's musician Eric Herman"
"Beatrix Potter Helen Beatrix Potter (British English , North American English also , 28 July 186622 December 1943) was an English writer, illustrator, natural scientist, and conservationist best known for her children's books featuring animals, such as those in ""The Tale of Peter Rabbit"". Born into an upper-class household, Potter was educated by governesses and grew up isolated from other children. She had numerous pets and spent holidays in Scotland and the Lake District, developing a love of landscape, flora, and fauna, all of which she closely observed and painted. Though Potter was typical of women of her generation in"
"Eric Hill Eric Gordon Hill (7 September 1927 – 6 June 2014) was an English author and illustrator of children's picture books, best known for his puppy character named Spot. His works have been widely praised for their contributions to child literacy. He was born in Holloway, London, and left school at 14. He first worked as an errand boy in an illustration studio where he was encouraged to draw cartoons and comic strips in his spare time. Following National Service, he produced sketches for magazines, and later worked as a freelance designer and illustrator in advertising. He moved with"
"his spots? then may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil"" (KJV). The title conveyed the idea that as leopards could not change their spots, people of African origin could not change what Dixon, as a racist and white supremacist, viewed as inherently negative character traits. Charles Gaston – A man who dreams of making it to the Governor's Mansion <br> Sallie Worth – A daughter of the old-fashioned South <br> Gen. Daniel Worth – Sallie Worth's father <br> Mrs. Worth – Sallie's mother <br> The Rev. John Durham – A preacher who threw his life away"
"<br> Tom Camp – A Confederate soldier <br> Flora – Tom's daughter <br> Simon Legree – Ex-slave driver and Reconstruction leader <br> Allan Mcleod – A scalawag (Union sympathizer) <br> Everett Lowell – Member of Congress from Boston <br> Helen Lowell – Everett's daughter <br> Major Stuart Dameron – Head of the Ku Klux Klan <br> Hose Norman – poor white man <br> Hon. Tim Shelby – Political Boss <br> George Harris, Jr – An educated Negro<br> Leonidas The Leopard's Spots The Leopard's Spots is the first novel of Thomas Dixon's Ku Klux Klan trilogy that included """" and ""The"
"unsatisfactory end in the Sunday feast; likewise, all the sweet dreams and expectations of youth will turn into bitter disillusion. Around the end of 1829 or the first months of 1830, Leopardi composed the ""Canto notturno di un pastore errante dell'Asia"" (""Night-time chant of a wandering Asian sheep-herder""). In writing this piece, Leopardi drew inspiration from the reading of ""Voyage d'Orenbourg à Boukhara fait en 1820"", by the Russian baron Meyendorff, in which the baron tells of how certain sheep-herders of central Asia belonging to the Kirghiz population practiced a sort of ritual chant consisting of long and sweet strophes"
"The Snow Leopard The Snow Leopard is a 1978 book by Peter Matthiessen. It is an account of his two-month search for the snow leopard with naturalist George Schaller in the Dolpo region on the Tibetan Plateau in the Himalayas. The book recounts the journey of Matthiessen and Schaller in 1973 to Shey Gompa in the inner Dolpo region of Nepal. Schaller's original objective was to compare the mating habits of the Himalayan blue sheep (the bharal) with those of the common sheep of the USA, while for Matthiessen the trip was more of a spiritual exploration. Another aim was"
"Mary Had a Little Lamb ""Mary Had a Little Lamb"" is an English language nursery rhyme of nineteenth-century American origin. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 7622. The nursery rhyme was first published by the Boston publishing firm Marsh, Capen & Lyon, as a poem by Sarah Josepha Hale on May 24, 1830, and was possibly inspired by an actual incident. There are competing theories on the origin and inspiration of this poem. One holds that John Roulstone wrote the first four lines and that the final twelve lines, less childlike than the first, were composed by"
"Under the Lilacs Under the Lilacs is a children's novel by Louisa May Alcott, first published in 1878. Bab and Betty, two little girls, are having a tea party with their dolls when an unknown dog appears and steals their cake. The girls find the dog, Sancho, along with his owner Ben Brown, a run-away from the circus who is hiding in their play barn in a carriage. They discover that Ben is a horse master and when he is taken in by the Moss', they get him a job on a neighboring farm. It is there that he can"