Just So Stories Just So Stories Just So Stories for Little Children is a 1902 collection of origin stories by the British author Rudyard Kipling. Considered a classic of children's literature, the book is among Kipling's best known works. Kipling began working on the book by telling the first three chapters as bedtime stories to his daughter Josephine. These had to be told "just so" (exactly in the words she was used to) or she would complain. The stories describe how one animal or another acquired its most distinctive features, such as how the leopard got his spots. For the book, Kipling illustrated
The Wind (poem) similar use is made of the letters R, S, D, and finally H. Dafydd took this poetic device, known as "cymeriad", from the older poetic form of "awdl", a kind of poem much used by court poets of the preceding centuries for poems of praise addressed to their patrons. He employed it in several of his "cywyddau". "The Wind" is cast in a form closely associated with Dafydd, the poem in which a messenger or "llatai", usually a bird or animal, is sent to the poet's lover. It is a good example of how Dafydd's works in this form can