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How the Leopard Got His Spots story by Kipling
Kipling's "Just So Stories" have enthralled generations of children and adults who have delighted in their whimsical explanations of the special physical characteristics of certain animals.
This collection contains six of the best of these tales, charming new illustrations by Thea Kliros. Three of them explain "How the Whale Got His Throat, " "How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin" and "How the Leopard Got His Spots." "
The Crab That Played with the Sea" relates the crab's origins. "
The Cat That Walked by Himself" amusingly describes the special relationship between cats and those they permit to shelter them.
The comical tale of Solomon and his many wives, "
The Butterfly That Stamped" rounds out this entertaining treasury of Kipling tales.
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" (exactly in the words she was used to) or she would complain.
The stories describe how one animal or another acquired its most distinctive features, such as how the leopard got his spots. For the book, Kipling illustrated the stories himself.
The stories have appeared in a variety of adaptations including musical and animated films. Evolutionary biologists have noted that what Kipling did in fiction in a Lamarckian way,
They have done in reality, providing Darwinian explanations for the evolutionary development of animal features
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