Rudyard Kipling
Just so Stories
eBook
(Racehorse Aug. 6, 2016)
, Illustrated edition
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.