Just So Stories

A beautiful Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories classic edition, featuring 12 full page illustrations by J. M. Gleeson as well as 73 other large and small drawings. Just So Stories is a 1902 collection of 12 short stories for children by the British author Rudyard Kipling. Considered a classic of children's literature, the book is among Kipling's best known works. Kipling began working on the book by telling the first three chapters as bedtime stories to his daughter Josephine. The stories illustrate how animals acquired their distinctive features, such as how the camel got his hump, how the rhinoceros got his skin, how the leopard got his spots. These magical and timeless tales have been retold for over a century, and his imagination and writing continue to enthral and entertain children and families the world over.