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  • Just So Stories

    Rudyard Kipling, Helen Ward

    Hardcover (Borders Press, Jan. 31, 2001)
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  • Just so Stories

    Rudyard Kipling

    Paperback (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, Nov. 12, 2015)
    The stories, first published in 1902, are pourquoi stories, fantastic accounts of how various 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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  • Just So Stories

    Rudyard Kipling

    eBook (Racehorse, June 19, 2018)
    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,
  • Just So Stories: By Rudyard Kipling : Illustrated

    Rudyard Kipling, Victor

    eBook (Sunshine Classics, Feb. 2, 2016)
    About Just So Stories by Rudyard KiplingHow is this book unique?E-reader & tablet formatted, Font Adjustments100% Original contentUnabridged EditionAuthor Biography InsideIllustrations includedThe stories, first published in 1902, are pourquoi (French for "why") or origin stories, fantastic accounts of how various phenomena came about. A forerunner of these stories is Kipling's "How Fear Came," included in his The Second Jungle Book (1895). In it, Mowgli hears the story of how the tiger got his stripes.The Just So Stories typically have the theme of a particular animal being modified from an original form to its current form by the acts of man, or some magical being. For example, the Whale has a tiny throat because he swallowed a mariner, who tied a raft inside to block the whale from swallowing other men. The Camel has a hump given to him by a djinn as punishment for the camel's refusing to work (the hump allows the camel to work longer between times of eating). The Leopard's spots were painted by an Ethiopian (after the Ethiopian painted himself black). The Kangaroo gets its powerful hind legs, long tail, and hopping gait after being chased all day by a dingo, sent by a minor god responding to the Kangaroo's request to be made different from all other animals.
  • Just So Stories

    Rudyard Kipling

    eBook (Racehorse, Aug. 18, 2017)
    Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling
  • Just So Stories: By Rudyard Kipling : Illustrated

    Rudyard Kipling, Remo

    eBook (Rainbow Classics, Jan. 25, 2016)
    Just So Stories by Rudyard KiplingHow is this book unique?Tablet and e-reader formattedOriginal & Unabridged EditionAuthor Biography includedIllustrated versionThe Just So Stories for Little Children are a collection written by the British author Rudyard Kipling. Highly fantasised origin stories, especially for differences among animals, they are among Kipling's best known works. For the fallacy named after Kipling's work see Just-so story.The stories, first published in 1902, are pourquoi (French for "why") or origin stories, fantastic accounts of how various phenomena came about. A forerunner of these stories is Kipling's "How Fear Came," included in his The Second Jungle Book (1895). In it, Mowgli hears the story of how the tiger got his stripes. The Just So Stories typically have the theme of a particular animal being modified from an original form to its current form by the acts of man, or some magical being. For example, the Whale has a tiny throat because he swallowed a mariner, who tied a raft inside to block the whale from swallowing other men. The Camel has a hump given to him by a djinn as punishment for the camel's refusing to work (the hump allows the camel to work longer between times of eating). The Leopard's spots were painted by an Ethiopian (after the Ethiopian painted himself black). The Kangaroo gets its powerful hind legs, long tail, and hopping gait after being chased all day by a dingo, sent by a minor god responding to the Kangaroo's request to be made different from all other animals.
  • Just So Stories

    Rudyard Kipling, Joseph M. Gleeson

    Paperback (A Kipling Book, June 25, 2016)
    "Just So Stories" is a collection of h ighly fantasised origin stories, especially for differences among animals, written by the British author Rudyard Kipling. They are among his best known works.
  • Just So Stories

    Rudyard Kipling

    (Independently published, Nov. 20, 2018)
    Complete and unabridged paperback edition.
  • Just So Stories

    Rudyard Kipling

    eBook (Racehorse, Aug. 20, 2017)
    Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling
  • Just So Stories

    Rudyard Kipling

    eBook (Racehorse, June 29, 2017)
    Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling
  • Just So Stories

    Rudyard Kipling

    eBook (Racehorse, June 14, 2017)
    Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling
  • Just so Stories

    Rudyard Kipling

    eBook (Racehorse, Aug. 6, 2016)
    The stories, first published in 1902, are pourquoi stories, fantastic accounts of how various 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.