Just So Stories - Softcover

Kipling, Rudyard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1434423697 ISBN 13: 9781434423696

Publisher: Wildside Press, 2024

Synopsis

This beloved collection of origin stories explains how various animals came to be the way they are. Written in a whimsical, playful tone, the stories include famous tales such as how the elephant got its trunk and how the leopard got its spots. Each story is filled with Kipling's imaginative explanations and moral lessons, making it a favorite for both children and adults.

Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) was a British author and poet. He is best known for The Jungle Book (1894), Kim (1901), many short stories and poems. He is regarded as a major innovator in the art of the short story, and his children's books are enduring classics of children's literature. The Just So Stories are highly fantasized origin stories and are among Kipling's best known works.

About this title

From the Back Cover

How did the camel get his hump? Why won't cats do as they are told? Who invented reading and writing? How did an inquisitive little elephant change the lives of elephants everywhere? Kipling's imagined answers to such questions draw on the beast fables he heard as a child in India, as well as on folk games with language, exploring the relationships between thought, speech, and the written word. He also celebrates his own joy in fatherhood. The tales were told to his own and his friends' children over many years before he wrote them down, adding poems and his own illustrations. They invite older and younger readers to share a magical experience, each contributing to the other's pleasure, but each can also enjoy them alone, as more jokes, subtexts, and exotic references emerge with every reading. This fully illustrated edition includes two extra stories and Kipling's own explanation of the title.

From the Inside Flap

Kipling's own drawings, with their long, funny captions, illustrate his hilarious explanations of How the Camel Got His Hump, How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin, How the Armadillo Happened, and other animal How's. He began inventing these stories in his American wife's hometown of Brattleboro, Vermont, to amuse his eldest daughter--and they have served ever since as a source of laughter for children everywhere.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wildside Press
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1434423697
• ISBN 13: 9781434423696
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 268