How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin

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"How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin" is one of Rudyard Kipling’s whimsical Just So Stories, telling a humorous origin tale explaining how the rhinoceros came to have its thick, wrinkled skin.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Just So Story
children's story
short story
author Rudyard Kipling NERFINISHED
countryOfOrigin United Kingdom
genre children's literature
fantasy
origin myth
hasAnimalProtagonist yes
hasIllustrationsBy Rudyard Kipling NERFINISHED
hasIllustrationStyle black-and-white drawings
hasMoralFunction didactic story
hasStructure single self-contained story
hasTone humorous
playful
hasWorkType whimsical tale
includedIn collections of children's classics
intendedAudience children
language English
literaryPeriod Edwardian era NERFINISHED
mainCharacter rhinoceros
narrativeForm prose
originalMedium print
originalPublisher Macmillan & Co. NERFINISHED
partOf Just So Stories NERFINISHED
publicationYear 1902
setting seashore
tropical island
theme consequences of greed
etiological tale
humor

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Just So Stories hasPart How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin
How the Leopard Got His Spots relatedWork How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin