Just So Stories: By Rudyard Kipling ( with classic illustrations) Contributor(s): Kipling, Rudyard (Author) |
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ISBN: ISBN-13: 9798653469435 Publisher: Independently Published OUR PRICE: $7.19 Product Type: Paperback Published: June 2020 * Not available - Not in print at this time * |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Juvenile Nonfiction | Humor - General |
Physical Information: 0.4" H x 5.98" W x 9.02" (0.57 lbs) 172 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Just So Stories for Little Children is a 1902 collection of origin stories by the British author Rudyard Kipling. Considered a classic of children's literature, the book is among Kipling's best-known works. Kipling began working on the book by telling the first three chapters as bedtime stories to his daughter Josephine. These had to be told "just so" (exactly in the words she was used to) or she would complain. The stories describe how one animal or another acquired its most distinctive features, such as how the leopard got his spots. For the book, Kipling illustrated the stories himself. The stories have appeared in a variety of adaptations including musical and animated films. Evolutionary biologists have noted that what Kipling did in fiction in a Lamarckian way, they have done in reality, providing Darwinian explanations for the evolutionary development of animal features. |