Just So Stories (Alma Junior Classics): This edition features Kipling’s iconic original illustrations - Softcover

Rudyard Kipling

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1847496377 ISBN 13: 9781847496379

Publisher: Alma Classics, 2017

Synopsis

Originally told by Rudyard Kipling to his children at bedtime, this compendium of witty tales imagines how animals came to be as they are now. Discover how the massive whale got a tiny throat by swallowing a mariner, how the lazy camel got a hump so that he had no excuse not to work, and why the leopard's spots were painted on.Kipling's imagination runs wild as he creates charming origin stories that still enchant and delight children to this day. This edition features Kipling's iconic original illustrations.

ABOUT THE SERIES: Alma Junior Classics series of illustrated classics includes some of the greatest books ever written for younger readers and new translations of unjustly neglected international works. Our aim is to give our list an international feel and offer young readers to opportunity to connect with other cultures and literatures this applies not only to the titles we chose but also to the illustrators we commission so that we can bring a bit of novelty into the canon of British children's literature. All children's classics contain extra material for young readers, including a profile of the author, a section on the book, a list of characters, a glossary and a test-yourself quiz.

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About the Author

Famous for his tales of adventure in British India, Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) is one of the most popular writers of all time and the first English-speaking recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature.

Edition details

• Publisher: Alma Classics
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1847496377
• ISBN 13: 9781847496379
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224