The cover page is adapted from How the Camel Got His Hump, a painting completed in 1912 by Joseph M. Gleeson. The cover and title pages feature the League Spartan and Sorts Mill Goudy typefaces created in 2014 and 2009 by The League of Moveable Type. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_M._Gleesonwww.theleagueofmoveabletype.com/
Just So Stories
Chapters (12)
- How the Whale Got His Throat 0:00
- How the Camel Got His Hump 7:10
- How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin 14:09
- How the Leopard Got His Spots 19:42
- The Elephant’s Child 34:08
- The Singsong of Old Man Kangaroo 51:29
- The Beginning of the Armadillos 59:35
- How the First Letter Was Written 1:16:32
- How the Alphabet Was Made 1:38:27
- The Crab That Played with the Sea 1:59:58
- The Cat That Walked by Himself 2:22:47
- The Butterfly That Stamped 2:47:45
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Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling, first published in 1902, is now considered to be a classic of children’s literature. The twelve tales included are all humorous “origin” stories purporting to tell how certain animals gained their distinctive features. For example, “The Elephant’s Child” tells how the elephant gained its long trunk because of a baby elephant having its nose pulled and stretched by a crocodile.
The stories originated as bedtime tales Kipling invented for his daughter and told to her each night. The stories had to be told in exactly the same words each night—“just so”—or his daughter would complain.
Early editions of Just So Stories were illustrated in black and white by Kipling himself, which lends the collection a certain charm. We have reproduced these illustrations in the Standard Ebooks edition of the book.