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Just So Stories

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Author(s):Rudyard Kipling
Illustrator(s):Rudyard Kipling
Dorothy P. Lathrop
Publisher(s): Doubleday, Doran & Co.
Year Published: 1930
Type: Hardcover
Genre: Animal Fantasy
Fables
Age Range: Ages 5-7: Early Reader Books
Pages: 249
This is an All-Time Great Children's Book (ATGCB)
OCLC: 42399493

Description

A collection of animal fables with a dust jacket by Dorothy P. Lathrop.

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Other Editions

Just So Stories (1902)

A collection of stories describing how the animals got the way they are -- each to be told ‘just so.’ Read online at Hathitrust.

Publisher: Macmillan & Co.
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The Just So Song Book (1903)

The songs from Just So Stories for Little Children are newly titled and set to music. Read online at archive.org.

Publisher: Doubleday, Page & Company
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The Just So Song Book (1903)

The songs from Just So Stories for Little Children are newly titled and set to music. Read online at Hathitrust.

Publisher: Macmillan & Co.
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How an encounter with a crocodile gave the elephant’s child his enormous trunk.

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How the Camel Got His Hump (1942)

At the beginning, the camel refused to work for the first three days, so the Djinn gave him a hump, and now he can work three days without resting.

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Publisher: Garden City Publishing Co.
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How the Leopard Got His Spots (1942)

At the beginning of things, the leopard and the Ethiopian change their colors to camouflage.

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Publisher: Garden City Publishing Co.
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How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin (1942)

After the rhinoceros eats the parsee’s cake, the latter gets even and the rhinoceros gets his wrinkled skin.

Publisher: Garden City Publishing Co.
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