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Just So Stories is a collection of jungle stories by Rudyard Kipling. Summary of the Book In this collection, Rudyard Kipling once again demonstrates his innate ability to spin a tale set in the jungles of the world. He tells twelve stories, narrated to his “best beloved”, teaching this person about the animals and how they have come to be as they are today. This collection includes: How the Whale got his Throat How the Rhinoceros got his Skin How the Camel got his Hump How the Leopard got his Spots The Elephants' Child The Beginning of the Armadillos The Sing-Song of Old Man Kangaroo The Cat That Walked by Himself The Butterfly That Stamped About Rudyard Kipling Joseph Rudyard Kipling was an English short-story writer, novelist and poet. He is also remembered as the author of the Jungle Books and Kim. One of the most popular writers of his generation, Kipling was considered several times for Knighthood which he refused. In 1907 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature and he is its youngest recipient till date.