Just So Stories

Author: Rudyard Kipling
Publisher: Indialog Publications
Year: 2005
Language: English
Pages: 141
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8187981962

Description

The fables in Just So Stories were first narrated by Kipling to an audience of his own children. In theme and subject matter, they range from animals and insects to the origins of the alphabet.

How the Leopard got his Spots, How the Rhinoceros got his Skin and How the Camel got his Hump are some of the most famous tales of this collection, which has endeared itself to generations of young readers.

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 Butterfly that Stamped