description: From the curiosity of the elephant's child, to the crab who played with the sea, from the ingenious invention of the alphabet, to how the rhinoceros got its wrinkled skin, these are stories of strange happenings in the High and Far-Off Times.
language: English
title: Just-So Stories
titlecomplete: Just-So Stories
characters: Aunt Ostrich, Dingo—Yellow-Dog, Tired-Dog, Poor-Dog, Elephant's Child, Wild Cow, Stute fish, Mariner, Wild Man, Little girl-daughter, Pau Amma, Man, aka Son of Adam, Kangaroo, Old Man Kangaroo, Tired Old Kangaroo, Slow-Solid Tortoise, Kolokolo Bird, Ethiopian, Solomon the Son of David, aka The Most Wise Sovreign Suleiman-bin-Daoud, Painted Jaguar, Aunt Hippopotamus, Stickly-Prickly Hedgehog, Wild Horse, Wild Dog, Rhinoceros, All-the-Turtle-there-was, Nqong, Bi-Colored-Python-Rock-Snake, The Most Beautiful Queen Balkis, Uncle Giraffe, Wild Cat, Uncle Baboon
genres: Literature, Young Adult, Childrens, Classics, India, Animals, Short Stories, Fiction, Fantasy, British Literature
ratings_count: 47721
series: Password Readers Leveled Stories
awards: awardedAt: -94665600000
name: Lewis Carroll Shelf Award
publisher: Signet Classics