Just So Stories

by Rudyard Kipling · 1902

Playful origin myths explaining how the leopard got its spots and the camel its hump, told to a child. Kipling's inventive fables for the young.

Books that mention Just So Stories (3)

• Matilda by Roald Dahl: “"you're too small and stupid to have read the Just So Stories, aren't you?" "I've read them," Matilda said.”
• Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein: “She found a spool of Kipling's Just So Stories and took it happily upstairs with her.”
• Good Night, Mr. Wodehouse by Faith Sullivan: “On his next visit, Larry brought one of his childhood books, the Just So Stories.”