Just So Stories (Templar Classics) (Templar Classics S.)

Rudyard Kipling, Helen Ward

ISBN 10: 1840113154 / ISBN 13: 9781840113150

Published by Templar Publishing 01/02/2001, 2001

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Just So Stories (Templar Classics) (Templar Classics S.)
• Publisher: Templar Publishing 01/02/2001
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1840113154
• ISBN 13: 9781840113150
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Helen Ward
• Condition: Very Good

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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.