| Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling |
The Just So Stories for Little Children were written by British author Rudyard Kipling. They are highly fanticised origin
stories and are among his best known, and arguably best, works. The stories, first published in 1902, are fantastic accounts of
how various natural phenomena came about. A forerunner of these stories is "How Fear Came" in The
Second Jungle Book (1895), in which Mowgli hears the story of how the tiger got his stripes.
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Table of contents
- How The Whale Got His Throat
- How The Camel Got His Hump
- How The Rhinoceros Got His Skin
- How The Leopard Got His Spots
- The Elephant's Child
- The Sing-Song of Old Man Kangaroo
- The Beginning of the Armadillos
- How the First Letter Was Written
- How the Alphabet Was Made
- The Crab That Played with the Sea
- The Cat That Walked by Himself
- The Butterfly That Stamped
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