Kipling's novel, The Second Jungle Book, published in 1895, contains a story which was probably a fore-runner to the Just-So Stories. The black-and-white drawing above is one of Kipling's illustrations for The Elephant's Child. The original editions of the stories were illustrated by Kipling himself. For example, the camel was punished because he was lazy.
Some of the tales also have a moral or a cautionary message to them which was common with stories written for children in Kipling's day.
For example, How the Camel got his Hump tells the story of how a hump was given to the camel by a djinn as punishment for the camel refusing to work so that the camel would be able to work longer between feedings. Each of the J ust-So Stories tells of an animal which is changed from its original form to its current form by the act of a man or of some magical being.
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