How the Leopard Got His Spots and Other Just So Stories

ON THE OTHER END OF THE LINE

About the story.

A leopard’s familiar hunting ground stops working in the familiar way, and the search for an explanation leads toward a changed landscape. The animals in Kipling’s imagined world have opinions about adaptation long before anyone calls it that.

These selected Just So Stories offer fanciful answers to questions about how things came to be. Their pleasure lies in the voice, the repetition, and the wonderfully particular reasoning of an invented long-ago world.