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Just So Stories - Original illustrated edition : Classic Edition"Just So Stories" is a collection of 12 short stories for children first published in 1902. They are fantastic stories, with that magic/legend/myth atmosphere of fairy tales, explaining things like the origin of armadillos or how the alphabet was invented. All…
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When I was seven, my dad bought me this book for Christmas. He’d loved it as a child and wanted me to have it too.
I loved the book as much as he did.
Dad gave the stories he loved to the daughter he loved—and, originally, Kipling wrote them for the daughter he adored. He read them to her at bedtime, and she insisted on them being told in exactly the same words—or "just-so"—each time. Which explains the book’s odd title.
The stories pretend to explain "how the leopard got his spots" and "how the camel got his hump." Like…
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