by Rudyard Kipling (Author)
Just So Stories for Little Children is a 1902 collection of origin stories 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. These had to be told "just so" (exactly in the words she was used to) or she would complain. The stories illustrate how animals obtained their distinctive features, such as how the leopard got his spots.
Author Biography
Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) was a novelist, short-story writer and poet. He is best known for his tales of India, where he was born and spent his early childhood, and to which he returned as a young man in 1882, before leaving for London in 1889. He was award the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907.