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How is this book unique?Font adjustments & biography includedUnabridged (100% Original content)Formatted for e-readerIllustratedAbout Just So Stories: By Rudyard KiplingJust 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 stories himself.The stories have appeared in a variety of adaptations including a musical and animated films. Evolutionary biologists have noted that what Kipling did in fiction, they have done in reality, providing explanations for the evolutionary development of animal features.

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"First Schocken Edition, 1965" Trade Paperback with 246 pages. With the author's own illustrations and intro by Herbert Read. - Here is a book of magical words and inciting adventures, O Best Beloved, tales of whales and elephants, of kangaroos and armadillos. Here are some venturesome adventures Kipling spun out first for his own daughter Josephine. They are stories a father goes on reading aloud long after his Best Beloved has fallen asleep. And they MUST be read aloud-to children of all ages, and to oneself. Their magic enchants any child with an ear for rhythm or taste for words, any parent in whom echoes of earlier reading reverberate, echoes of strange places like 'the great-grey-green Limpopo River, all set about with fever-trees.' For here are camel's Humph, the particularly remembered suspenders, the elelphant child's new trunk, and the cat who walked by his wild lone and bested The Woman thrice. 'The tales had to be read by children before people realized that they were meant for grown-ups.' - Kiping's own illustrations offer a double treat.

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 stories himself.