Just So Stories (Wordsworth Children's Classics) - Softcover

Kipling, Rudyard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1853261025 ISBN 13: 9781853261022

Publisher: Wordsworth Editions, 1993

Synopsis

These witty stories were originally told by Rudyard Kipling to his own children. In them he gives fanciful accounts of how and why things came to be as they are.

Generations of children have delighted to learn how the Leopard got his spots, how the Elephant's Child on the banks of the great grey-green Limpopo acquired his trunk with the help of the Crocodile, and the beginning of the Armadillos.

Beautifully illustrated in black-and-white by the author, these delightful tales will hold the reader and listener spellbound.

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About the Author

Nobel prize-winning writer Rudyard Kipling was born in Bombay, India, but returned with his parents to England at the age of five. Influenced by experiences in both India and England, Kipling s stories celebrate British imperialism and the experience of the British soldier in India. Amongst Kipling s best-known works are The Jungle Book, Just So Stories, and the poems Mandalay and Gunga Din. Kipling was the first English-language writer to receive the Nobel prize for literature (1907) and was amongst the youngest to receive the award. Kipling died in 1936 and is interred in Poets Corner in Westminster Abbey.<br /><br />

Nobel prize-winning writer Rudyard Kipling was born in Bombay, India, but returned with his parents to England at the age of five. Influenced by experiences in both India and England, Kipling s stories celebrate British imperialism and the experience of the British soldier in India. Amongst Kipling s best-known works are The Jungle Book, Just So Stories, and the poems Mandalay and Gunga Din. Kipling was the first English-language writer to receive the Nobel prize for literature (1907) and was amongst the youngest to receive the award. Kipling died in 1936 and is interred in Poets Corner in Westminster Abbey.<br /><br />Janet Taylor Lisle s books for young readers have received the Newbery Honor Award ("Afternoon of the Elves"), the Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction ("The Art of Keeping Cool"), Holland s Zilveren Griffel, and Italy s Premio Andersen Award, among other honors. A graduate of Smith College and former journalist, she lives in Rhode Island and often draws on Rhode Island history in her work. Visit her online at JanetTaylorLisle.com.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wordsworth Editions
• Publication date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1853261025
• ISBN 13: 9781853261022
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 144