Just So Stories -Illustrated: Classic Illustrated Animal Origin Stories for Children - Softcover

Kipling, Rudyard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1617206377 ISBN 13: 9781617206375

Publisher: SMK Books, 2012

Synopsis

The stories, first published in 1902, are pourquoi stories, fantastic accounts of how various phenomena came about. A forerunner of these stories is "How Fear Came" in The Second Jungle Book (1895), in which Mowgli hears the story of how the tiger got his stripes.

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About the Author

Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) was a British author, poet, journalist, and Nobel Prize-winning writer whose fiction and verse became central to English-language literature of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Born in Bombay and educated in England, Kipling drew upon imperial, military, journalistic, and childhood experience in works ranging from The Jungle Book and Kim to poems, short stories, fables, and children's literature. His prose is known for rhythm, verbal energy, narrative compression, and a powerful command of voice.Kipling's books for children remain among his most widely read works. Just So Stories shows him at his most playful and inventive, using repetition, comic exaggeration, mythic explanation, animal lore, and storyteller's intimacy to create tales that feel both ancient and entirely his own. For readers of classic children's books, animal stories, literary fairy tales, and early twentieth-century British fiction, Kipling remains a major and complicated figure: brilliant, influential, stylistically unmistakable, and deeply embedded in the literary history of his age.

Edition details

• Publisher: SMK Books
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1617206377
• ISBN 13: 9781617206375
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 90