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Just So Stories is a collection of short stories that supposedly explain how things came to be. Set in Africa and the Amazon, basically anywhere that jungles and jungle animals can easily be explained, Kipling uses animals as his main characters to explain away the creation of the alphabet, how certain animals like the armadillo came to be, and more. It is clever, though I am not a big fan of the wordier style used. Of course the racial (perhaps most obvious in How the Leopard Got His Spots when
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Jul 28, 2011
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