Just So Stories

Rudyard Kipling

Summary

Fables and Myths of the Animals by the Author of The Jungle Book   “Hear and attend and listen; for this befell and behappened and became and was: O my Best Beloved, when the tame animals were wild.”  ― Rudyard Kipling, Just So Stories   Just So Stories is a collection of short stories or fables by Rudyard Kipling. This volume includes:  How the Whale Got His Throat  How the Camel Got His Hump  How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin  How the Leopard Got His Spots  How the Elephant Got his Trunk  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 the Played with the Sea  The Cat that Walked by Himself  The Butterfly that Stamped  The Tabu Tale  
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Available since: 03/20/2015.

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