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Violence
None
No violence; the stories are whimsical throughout
Language
None
No profanity
Sexual Content
None
No sexual content
Substance Use
None
No substance use
Emotional Intensity
None
No disturbing content
What this book is about
Rudyard Kipling's 1902 collection of origin stories for children explains, with whimsy and wordplay, how animals acquired their distinctive features. The Elephant's Child gets his trunk from a crocodile. The Camel gets his hump from sulking. The Leopard gets his spots from a painted Ethiope. Kipling wrote these stories for his daughter, and they retain their delight in language—repetition, invented words, and the formal storytelling refrain of 'just so.'
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