Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley door pickup 10am - 7pm 3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611

  • Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Just So Stories

Just So Stories

Kipling, Rudyard

Paperback

Animals

ISBN10: 1534794190
ISBN13: 9781534794191
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Jun 20 2016
Pages: 66
Weight: 0.29
Height: 0.14 Width: 7.00 Depth: 10.00
Language: English
Just So Stories By Rudyard Kipling The stories, first published in 1902, are pourquoi (French for why) or origin stories, fantastic accounts of how various phenomena came about. A forerunner of these stories is Kipling's How Fear Came, included in his The Second Jungle Book (1895). 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.

58 different editions

Also available

Also in

Animals

View All