But this use of the phrase was in honour of Kipling, rather than being an existing phrase which Kipling simply adopted as the title for his collection of tales.Īnd the tales are, in a sense, Lamarckian evolutionary origin-stories. But then in fairness, I was probably influenced by the extended use, particularly in evolutionary biology, of the term ‘just-so story’ to describe a hypothesis which purports to explain – without evidence – how a particular cultural or biological trait came into being. I may have been in the minority in making this mistake. So at last they came to be like charms, all three of them – the whale tale, the camel tale, and the rhinoceros tale.’ They had to be told just so or Effie would wake up and put back the missing sentence. As Kipling later wrote of them, ‘in the evening there were stories meant to put Effie to sleep, and you were not allowed to alter those by one single little word. But no: it’s only now I realise that they’re ‘just so’ stories because Kipling’s daughter Josephine (known as ‘Effie’), to whom he told many of these tales as bedtime stories, insisted that her father tell the stories to her ‘just so’, or in exactly the words she was used to. Libro bajo demanda.Until now, I’d always laboured under the belief that these tales were called Just So Stories because they’re about things being the way they are: it’s ‘just so’ that leopards have spots, camels have humps, and so on. Anyone trying to capture the magic and innocence of childhood will be charmed by this close reproduction of a century\'s old classic. Even the cover of this edition reflects the first edition of "Just So Stories." Some very minor updates were required due to modern printing methods, but in the main, this is the closest the reader can get to the original edition just as Kipling wrote it, without having an actual first edition book in one\'s hand.This attractive edition is a perfect gift and will be coveted by libraries.
Beautifully written and packed-full of illustrations, Just So Stories is the perfect combination of education and fun to get kids to love reading.This edition is carefully reconstructed from the original edition. Kipling\'s book features stories such as "How the Whale Got His Throat," or why large whales eat small prey, and "How the Alphabet Was Made," which details a young girl and her father inventing an alphabet. Just So Stories is a collection of origin stories, fictional tales that explain why animals have certain characteristics and other themes akin to that. Written by classic English author Rudyard Kipling, Just So Stories is considered not only a quintessential children\'s book, but one of Kipling\'s best works.
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