Just so Stories (Hardcover)

Written originally for his own children, Rudyard Kipling’s Just So Stories have continued to delight generations of youngsters since they were rst published in 1902. The thirteen stories col- lected in this book are meant for very young children, but they en- gage older kids and adults too with their charming conversational style and simple plot lines. These stories are typical examples of the “origin” story, where children are provided with imaginative rather than practical ex- planations for the “why” “what” “how” “where” “who” “when” questions of childhood. The Just So Stories were tales that Kipling would tell his own daughter who tragically died in infancy of pneumonia.