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Just So Stories
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4 out of 5
Based on 41,916 Ratings and 1,504 Reviews

Book Description
Rudyard Kipling's original Just So Stories published in 1902. They are pourquoi stories, fantastic accounts of how various phenomena came about. The Just So Stories have a typical theme of a particular animal being modified from an original form to its current form by the acts of man, or some magical being. For example, the Whale has a tiny throat from a swallowed mariner who tied a raft in the... More
Book Information
PublisherDoubleday & Company, Inc
BindingHardcover (429 editions)
Reading LevelUncategorized
# of Pages249
ISBN-100333087933
ISBN-13978-0333087930
Publication Date/1902
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About Rudyard Kipling (Author) : Rudyard Kipling is a published author, editor, illustrator, and a series editor. Some of the published credits of Rudyard Kipling include Just So Stories, Soldiers Three, Kim (Everyman's Library (Pape... more
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3/16/2014 Regine Allison Claire tagged as: I recommend, I read

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9/24/2009 Richele McFarlin said: I assigned this to my son for school last year for 3rd grade. He LOVED the book! I was thrilled to see my son enjoy good literature. This is a great book full of cute stories about how the animals are the way they are.
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9/2/2009 D. Murdoch tagged as: I recommend

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2/15/2008 Lilly Fluger said:
"O, best beloved"... begins Rudyard Kipling in his wonderful tales of fun and enchantment about theanimals in India. They just don't write like that anymore. I don't have to read these over and over cause they live in my head. But when I do, I fall in love all over again. These are the series of ... more

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10/9/2007 pixie q. said: In particular, "The Elephant's Child"
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8/31/2007 Elizabeth Bluemle tagged as: I Read

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