Following the initial success of The Jungle Book, Rudyard Kipling published the collection of parables Just So Stories. He first entertained his own children with these delightful and humorous tales before deciding to write them down for publication. The stories are written in the form of what came to be also known as pourqoui (French for why') stories, each explaining how and why things came to be as they are. From How the Camel Got His Hump' to the classic How the Whale Got His Throat,' Kipl