Author: Rudyard Kipling
Publisher: ABDO
ISBN: 9781596793446
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40

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Relates how the leopard got his spotted coat in order to hunt the animals in the dappled shadows of the forest.

Author: Brian Goodwin
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691217807
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 279

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Do genes explain life? Can advances in evolutionary and molecular biology account for what we look like, how we behave, and why we die? In this powerful intervention into current biological thinking, Brian Goodwin argues that such genetic reductionism has important limits. Drawing on the sciences of complexity, the author shows how an understanding of the self-organizing patterns of networks is necessary for making sense of nature. Genes are important, but only as part of a process constrained by environment, physical laws, and the universal tendencies of complex adaptive systems. In a new preface for this edition, Goodwin reflects on the advances in both genetics and the sciences of complexity since the book's original publication.

Author: Chinua Achebe
Publisher: Candlewick Press
ISBN: 0763648051
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 41

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Recounts how the leopard got his claws and teeth and why he rules the forest with terror.

Author: Sean Tulien
Publisher: Raintree
ISBN: 1406261831
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 42

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In this retelling of Rudyard Kipling's classic tale, a leopard finds a way to hide when the Ethiopian covers him with spots. Told in graphic novel format.

Author: John Batchelor
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300258259
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 249

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A fascinating, richly illustrated exploration of the poignant origins of Rudyard Kipling’s world-famous children’s classic From "How the Leopard Got Its Spots" to "The Elephant’s Child," Rudyard Kipling’s Just So Stories have delighted readers across the world for more than a century. In this original study, John Batchelor explores the artistry with which Kipling created the Just So Stories, using each tale as an entry point into the writer’s life and work—including the tragedy that shadows much of the volume, the death of his daughter Josephine. Batchelor details the playful challenges the stories made to contemporary society. In his stories Kipling played with biblical and other stories of creation and imagined fantastical tales of animals' development and man's discovery of literacy. Richly illustrated with original drawings and family photographs, this account reveals Kipling’s public and private lives—and sheds new light on a much-loved and tremendously influential classic.

Author: Thomas Dixon
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 528

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Author: Rudyard Kipling
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781409596783
Category : Children's stories
Languages : en
Pages : 32

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The lovely story from Kippling adapted for younger readers.

Author: Kristopher Jansma
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0143125028
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 274

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Winner of the Sherwood Anderson Foundation Fiction Award Honorable Mention for the PEN/Hemingway Award "F. Scott Fitzgerald meets Wes Anderson" (The Village Voice) in this inventive and witty debut about a young man’s quest to become a writer and the misadventures in life and love that take him around the globe—from the author of Why We Came to the City As early as he can remember, the narrator of this remarkable novel has wanted to become a writer. From the jazz clubs of Manhattan to the villages of Sri Lanka, Kristopher Jansma’s hopelessly unreliable—yet hopelessly earnest—narrator will be haunted by the success of his greatest friend and literary rival, the brilliant Julian McGann, and endlessly enamored with Evelyn, the green-eyed girl who got away. A profound exploration of the nature of truth and storytelling, this delightful picaresque tale heralds Jansma as a bold, new American voice.

Author: Shoo Rayner
Publisher: Orchard Books
ISBN: 9781846164095
Category : Camouflage (Biology)
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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The Leopard is happy to be sandy-yellow and greyish-brown all over. But when he goes to the speckly-spickly forest, he begins to wonder if spots would be better...

Author:
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781614732174
Category : Folklore
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Follow 14 African animals as they attempt to find out how many spots their leopard friend has. This funny, and frustrating, tale is highly interactive, engaging children to count along with the characters.