Just So Stories (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

By Rudyard Kipling

Published in 1902, these charming and whimsical fantasies for children—and adults who retain a love of the fantastic—are enduring classics.  Focusing on the explanation of origin, the book includes "How the Leopard Got His Spots," How the Camel Got His Hump," and "The Cat That Walked by Himself."

• Language: English
• Publisher: Barnes & Noble
• Release date: Feb 15, 2011
• ISBN: 9781411438071

Rudyard Kipling

Rudyard Kipling was born in India in 1865. After intermittently moving between India and England during his early life, he settled in the latter in 1889, published his novel The Light That Failed in 1891 and married Caroline (Carrie) Balestier the following year. They returned to her home in Brattleboro, Vermont, where Kipling wrote both The Jungle Book and its sequel, as well as Captains Courageous. He continued to write prolifically and was the first Englishman to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907 but his later years were darkened by the death of his son John at the Battle of Loos in 1915. He died in 1936.