Just So Stories

Rudyard Kipling 지음

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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. For the book, Kipling illustrated the stories himself. The stories have appeared in a variety of adaptations including a musical and animated films.

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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

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Rudyard Kipling's children books are classics;
one critic his work noted "a versatile and luminous narrative gift."

In 1907, collection of stories of Rudyard Kipling who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature!

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저자(글) Rudyard Kipling

Joseph Rudyard Kipling(1865-1936) was an English journalist, short-story writer and novelist. He was born in British India, which inspired much of his work.Kipling's works of fiction include The Jungle Book (1894), Kim (1901), the Just So Stories (1902) and many short stories, including "The Man Who Would Be King" (1888). Kipling in the late 19th and early 20th centuries was among the United Kingdom's most popular writers. In 1907, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, as the first English-language writer to receive the prize, and at 41, its youngest recipient to date.