Just So Stories Just So Stories Just So Stories for Little Children is a 1902 collection of origin stories by the British author Rudyard Kipling. Considered a classic of children's literature, the book is among Kipling's best known works. Kipling began working on the book by telling the first three chapters as bedtime stories to his daughter Josephine. These had to be told "just so" (exactly in the words she was used to) or she would complain. The stories describe how one animal or another acquired its most distinctive features, such as how the leopard got his spots. For the book, Kipling illustrated
The Leopard's Spots 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