He is regarded as a major innovator in the art of the short story his children's books are classics of children's literature, and one critic described his work as exhibiting 'a versatile and luminous narrative gift'. Kipling's works of fiction include The Jungle Book (1894), Kim (1901), and many short stories, including 'The Man Who Would Be King' (1888). His poems include 'Mandalay' (1890), 'Gunga Din' (1890), 'The Gods of the Copybook Headings' (1919), 'The White Man's Burden' (1899), and 'If-' (1910). Joseph Rudyard Kipling (30 December 1865 – 18 January 1936) was an English journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist. Of them,-the whale tale, the camel tale, and the rhinoceros tale.' So at last they came to be like charms, all three They had to be told just so or Effie would wake up and put back To sleep, and you were not allowed to alter those by one single little Kipling explained: 'in the evening there were stories meant to put Effie Were published in a children’s magazine, a year before her death, The Just So Stories began as bedtime stories told to hisĭaughter 'Effie' when the first three Powerful hind legs, long tail, and hopping gait after being chased allĭay by a dingo, sent by a minor god responding to the Kangaroo's request to be made different from all other animals. (after the Ethiopian painted himself black). The Camel has a hump given to him by a djinnĪs punishment for the camel's refusing to work (the hump allows theĬamel to work longer between times of eating). He swallowed a mariner, who tied a raft inside to block the whale from For example, the Whale has a tiny throat because Modified from an original form to its current form by the acts of man, The Just So Stories each tell how a particular animal was Kipling did in fiction, they have done in reality, providingĮxplanations for the evolutionary development of animal features. Evolutionary biologists have noted that what The stories have appeared in a variety of adaptations including a For theīook, Kipling illustrated the stories himself.

The stories describe how one animal or another acquired its mostĭistinctive features, such as how the Leopard got his spots.

'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 chaptersĪs 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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