num_pages: 210
description: Librarian's Note: Alternate cover edition can be found here.Twelve stories about animals, insects, and other subjects include How the Camel Got His Hump. The Butterfly That Stamped, and How the Alphabet Was Made..
language: English
title: Just So Stories
titlecomplete: Just So Stories
characters: Kolokolo Bird, Stute fish, Little girl-daughter, Nqong, Kangaroo, Old Man Kangaroo, Tired Old Kangaroo, Aunt Ostrich, Wild Horse, Rhinoceros, Stickly-Prickly Hedgehog, Wild Cat, Uncle Giraffe, Solomon the Son of David, aka The Most Wise Sovreign Suleiman-bin-Daoud, Aunt Hippopotamus, Painted Jaguar, Ethiopian, Pau Amma, All-the-Turtle-there-was, The Most Beautiful Queen Balkis, Wild Dog, Wild Cow, Uncle Baboon, Dingo—Yellow-Dog, Tired-Dog, Poor-Dog, Wild Man, Mariner, Slow-Solid Tortoise, Man, aka Son of Adam, Elephant's Child, Bi-Colored-Python-Rock-Snake
genres: Short Stories, Animals, Childrens, Young Adult, Literature, India, Fantasy, Classics, British Literature, Fiction
ratings_count: 47717
series: Password Readers Leveled Stories
awards: awardedAt: -94665600000
name: Lewis Carroll Shelf Award
publisher: Gramercy Books