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
How Ian Direach got the Blue Falcon a bundle of sticks herself. So Ian burned her, married the princess, and lived ever afterwards in friendship with Gille Mairtean the fox. How Ian Direach got the Blue Falcon "How Ian Direach got the Blue Falcon" is a Scottish fairy tale, collected by John Francis Campbell in "Popular Tales of the West Highlands". He recorded it from a quarryman in Knockderry, Roseneath, named Angus Campbell. Andrew Lang included it in "The Orange Fairy Book". A king and a queen had a son, Ian. When Ian was almost grown to a man, his mother died, and his father remarried. One