Beschreibung
The stories, first published in 1902, are pourquoi stories, fantastic accounts of how various phenomena came about. A forerunner of these stories is "How Fear Came" in The Second Jungle Book (1895), in which Mowgli hears the story of how the tiger got his stripes.
The original editions of Just So Stories were illustrated with woodcuts by Kipling himself, though later editions have included illustrations by other artists.
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