The fables in Just So Stories were first narrated by Kipling to an audience of his own children. In theme and subject matter, they range from animals and insects to the origins of the alphabet. How the Leopard got his Spots, How the Rhinoceros got his Skin and How the Camel got his Hump are some of the most famous tales of this collection, which has endeared itself to generations of young readers.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Rudyard Kipling
RUDYARD KIPLING (1865-1936) was a poet, novelist and short story writer. He was born in Bombay. After his schooling in England, he moved over to India in 1882, where he began his journalistic career with Civil and Military Gazette, Lahore. By the time he returned to England in 1896, he had published many of his classic children/s stories that made him highly popular. In 1907 he was the first British author to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. Besides Just So Stories, some of his other best known books for children include The Jungle Book and Kim.
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