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The Just So Stories for Little Children (Illustrated Edition)

Children's Literature

The Just So Stories for Little Children (Illustrated Edition)

Pourquoi tales of magical transformations and animal origins, with classic illustrations.By Rudyard Kipling

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The Just So Stories for Little Children (Illustrated Edition)

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This carefully crafted ebook: "The Just So Stories for Little Children (Illustrated Edition)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. The Just So Stories for Little Children are a highly fantasized origin stories, especially for differences among animals, they are among Kipling's best known works. The stories are pourquoi (French for "why") or origin stories, fantastic accounts of how various phenomena came about. 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. Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936) was an English short-story writer, poet, and novelist. He wrote tales and poems of British soldiers in India and stories for children. He is regarded as a major innovator in the art of the short story; his children's books are classics of children's literature; and one critic described his work as exhibiting "a versatile and luminous narrative gift".

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GenreChildren's Literature

Length3 hrs 39 mins

Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices

FormateBook with Audio

Publish dateAug 27, 2015

LanguageEnglish

Table of contents

1The Just So Stories for Little Children

8The Beginning of the Armadillos

2How the Whale Got His Throat

9How the First Letter Was Written

3How the Camel Got His Hump

10How the Alphabet Was Made

4How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin

11The Crab That Played With the Sea

5How the Leopard Got His Spots

12The Cat That Walked by Himself

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6The Elephant&#x27;s Child

13The Butterfly That Stamped

7The Sing-Song of Old Man Kangaroo

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