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"Before the High and Far-Off Times,
     O my Best Beloved, came the
Time of the Very Beginnings..."

...So commences the series of incredible tales from master storyteller Rudyard Kipling. How did the whale get his throat? Why was the lazy camel lumbered with a hump? And how did the elephant's insatiable curiosity earn him a trunk?

Kipling first invented these delightful, warm and humorous stories about the beginning of the world and the first animals in it for his own daughter, Josephine, who tragically died when she was six. Devastated be her loss, Kipling compiled the stories they had shared together into a treasury, which was first published in 1902. Conjuring up distant lands and exotic jungles, the imaginative tales are bewitching for both children and adults.

From the dust jacket of the Robert Ingpen edition
Rudyard Kipling

Rudyard Kipling

1865 - 1936
British
Rudyard Kipling was born in Bombay in 1865. He was educated in England but returned to India as an adult and worked as a journalist. There, he produ... See more

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Just So Stories Reprint

Just So Stories
Reprinted in 1996 by Books of Wonder
Reprint illustrated by Barry Moser
Available formats: Hardcover
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