Just So Stories (Piccolo Books)

Kipling, Rudyard

ISBN 10: 033024258X / ISBN 13: 9780330242585

Published by Macmillan Children's Books, 1988

About this Item

Secondhand. Covers lightly worn, pages lightly tanned. Owner bookplate and name inside. Picture different to Amazon homepage - animals on a black background, with black cats on a yellow strip along the bottom. Good book.

Seller Inventory # mon0000008734

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Just So Stories (Piccolo Books)
• Publisher: Macmillan Children's Books
• Publication Date: 1988
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 033024258X
• ISBN 13: 9780330242585
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: Good

About this title

Synopsis

animal story book

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.