Complex sentence: Tales like Rudyard Kipling's the Jungle Book and Just So Stories inspired crafters to create toys that depicted exotic animals, however these early stuffed monkeys were not necessarily made from socks, and also lacked the characteristic red lips of the sock monkeys popular today.
Split into simpler sentences: Tales like Rudyard Kipling's the Jungle Book and Just So Stories inspired crafters to create toys that depict exotic animals. However, these early stuffed monkeys were not necessarily made from socks, and also lacked the characteristic red lips of the sock monkeys popular today.