Just So Stories: Just So Stories is a collection of fascinating short fairy tales, talking about India, jungle, pasture, the origin of the world etc. The characters are all animals. Rudyard Kipling is well-known for his children’s stories and essays. He builds a unique fairyland through incredible imagination and humorous expression. In 1907, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for ‘empirical observation… primordial type of imaginative power … profundity of his thought or for the surpassing wisdom of his meditations …greatest genius in the realm of narrative that that country has produced in our times’