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Ever wonder why the elephant's nose is so long or how the leopard got its spots? Step into a world where animals talk, magic is real, and the most curious mysteries of nature are explained... Read Full Overview

Rudyard Kipling's "Just So Stories" is a timeless collection of imaginative short stories exploring how animals acquired their unique characteristics. Journey to India and Africa through these charming tales, originally conceived as children's literature but enjoyed by readers... Read Full Overview

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.HOW THE WHALE... Read Full Overview