Click on the links below to see my favourite versions of these. Joseph Rudyard Kipling was a journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist. The stories have also been published separately in picture-book format. Just So Stories is a collection of origin stories that explain why something is the way it is. Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling is part of our primary school Black Plus (Level 17) book bands collection - FREE DELIVERY On Mainland UK Orders Over 25. They began as stories Kipling told to his little daughter, Josephine, and were first published in 1902. Our family owns the copy you can see on the right ( or click here to see it). The Just-So Stories are a series of short stories for children written by English writer and poet Rudyard Kipling. The Just-So Stories were originally published together in one book.

It's called How Fear Came in which Mowgli hears the story of how the tiger got his stripes. Kipling's novel, The Second Jungle Book, published in 1895, contains a story which was probably a fore-runner to the Just-So Stories.

The black-and-white drawing above is one of Kipling's illustrations for The Elephant's Child. The Just-So Stories are a series of short stories for children written by English writer and poet Rudyard Kipling. The original editions of the stories were illustrated by Kipling himself. For example, the camel was punished because he was lazy. Some of the tales also have a moral or a cautionary message to them which was common with stories written for children in Kipling's day. For example, How the Camel got his Hump tells the story of how a hump was given to the camel by a djinn as punishment for the camel refusing to work so that the camel would be able to work longer between feedings. They are a collection of fantastic stories, typically about how various animals came to be the way they are today.Each of the J ust-So Stories tells of an animal which is changed from its original form to its current form by the act of a man or of some magical being. I keep six honest serving-men (They taught me all I knew) Their names are What and Where and When And How and Why and Who. But Kipling’s short stories for adults often get overlooked a fact which is perhaps hardly surprising given how much enduring and endurable writing. The Just So Stories for Little Children, first published in 1902, were written by British author Rudyard Kipling. Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) was a prolific novelist, short-story writer, and poet, who is perhaps best-known for classic children’s books like The Jungle Book and for poems like ‘If’. Download cover art Download CD case insert Just So Stories Rudyard Kipling surprises us again with these five tales from the animal kingdom.

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