Rudyard Kipling
Just So Stories: With Linked Table of Contents
eBook
(Dancing Unicorn Books Aug. 14, 2016)
, Illustrated edition
These 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.