Just So Stories - Softcover

Kipling, Ruyard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1438504551 ISBN 13: 9781438504551

Publisher: Book Jungle, 2008

Synopsis

The Just So Stories were written by Rudyard Kipling and published in 1902. The stories are fanciful accounts about how various phenomena came to be. How the Camel Got his Hump is an example. Each story is accompanied by a poem. The dialect is inspired by a formalized Indian speech pattern, which makes them wonderful to read aloud. Stories included in this collection are as follows: How the Whale got his Throat -- How the Camel got his Hump -- How the Rhinoceros got its Skin -- How the Leopard got his Spots -- The Elephant's Child -- The Sing-Song of Old Man Kangaroo -- The Beginning of the Armadillos -- How the First Letter was Written -- How the Alphabet was Made -- The Crab that Played with the Sea -- The Cat that walked by Himself -- The Butterfly that Stamped.

About this title

Review

A handy, properly pocket-sized paperback, with Kipling's original illustrations and commentaries on them, with annotations that reveal unsuspected depths and correspondances to these familiar creation fables. (Nicholas Lezard, The Guardian)

Book Description

Rudyard Kipling's original extraordinary tales, fully illustrated by the author

Edition details

• Publisher: Book Jungle
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1438504551
• ISBN 13: 9781438504551
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 84