Just So Stories

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• Publisher: Fantastica
• Year: 2013
• eBook ISBN: 9781909676541
• Edition: 0

Highly fantasised origin stories, especially for differences among animals, and accounts of how various phenomena came about. A forerunner of these stories is Kipling's 'How Fear Came, ' included in 'The Second Jungle Book'.

Table of contents

• HOW THE WHALE GOT HIS THROAT
• HOW THE CAMEL GOT HIS HUMP
• HOW THE RHINOCEROS GOT HIS SKIN
• HOW THE LEOPARD GOT HIS SPOTS
• THE ELEPHANT’S CHILD
• THE SING-SONG OF OLD MAN KANGAROO
• THE BEGINNING OF THE ARMADILLOS
• HOW THE FIRST LETTER WAS WRITTEN
• HOW THE ALPHABET WAS MADE
• THE CRAB THAT PLAYED WITH THE SEA
• THE CAT THAT WALKED BY HIMSELF
• THE BUTTERFLY THAT STAMPED
• CHILDREN’S CLASSICS