![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In it, Mowgli hears the story of how the tiger got his stripes.The Just So Stories each tell how a particular animal was modified from an original form to its current form by the acts of man, or some magical being. A forerunner of these stories is Kipling's "How Fear Came", in The Second Jungle Book (1895). Evolutionary biologists have noted that what Kipling did in fiction, they have done in reality, providing explanations for the evolutionary development of animal features.The stories, first published in 1902, are origin stories, fantastic accounts of how various features of animals came to be. The stories have appeared in a variety of adaptations including a musical and animated films. For the book, Kipling illustrated the stories himself. The stories describe how one animal or another acquired its most distinctive features, such as how the Leopard got his spots. These had to be told "just so" (exactly in the words she was used to) or she would complain. Kipling began working on the book by telling the first three chapters as bedtime stories to his daughter Josephine. Considered a classic of children's literature, the book is among Kipling's best known works. Just So Stories for Little Children is a 1902 collection of origin stories by the British author Rudyard Kipling. ![]()
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