The Jungle Book Just So Stories

The Jungle Book, one of the most famous children’s books today, buoyed by multiple Disney film adaptations, is now available in an unabridged paperback edition including Rudyard Kipling’s fantastical short story collection Just So Stories. This Children’s Signature Classics edition will include both The Jungle Book and Just So Stories, a that whimsically explores animals’ origins, like how the zebra got its stripes. The Jungle Book’s story of survival, belonging, and growing up is perfect for young readers’ libraries.

Twelve stories about animals, insects, and other subjects include "How the Alphabet Was Made," "How the Camel Got His Hump," and "The Elephant's Child."

The Jungle Books tell the story of the irrepressible Mowgli, who is rescued as a baby from the jaws of the evil tiger, Shere Khan. Raised by wolves and guided by Baloo the bear, Mowgli and his animal friends embark on a series of hair-raising adventures through the jungles of India.

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.

Selected from The Jungle Book, The Second Jungle Book, and Many Inventions, this edition presents in chronological order every tale that Kipling wrote about the feral boy known as Mowgli.

One of the beauties of Jungle Law is that punishment settles all scores. There is no nagging afterward.The Law of the Jungle reigns supreme in this collection of fables set in late 19th century India. Join Mowgli, a young orphaned boy, and a band of animals, including Shere Khan the Bengal tiger, Baloo the bear, and a savvy mongoose named Rikki-Tikki-Tavi, among many others, in this magnificent classic work of children's fiction.