Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling

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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" or she would complain. The stories illustrate how animals acquired their distinctive features, such as how the leopard got his spots.