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Just So Stories -Illustrated: Classic Illustrated Animal Origin Stories for Children
Paperback
AnimalsGeneral Juvenile Fiction
ISBN13: 9781617206375
Publisher: SMK Books
Published: Feb 9 2012
Pages: 90
Weight: 0.32
Height: 0.22 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Just So Stories -Illustrated is Rudyard Kipling's classic collection of imaginative animal origin tales, explaining how the whale, camel, rhinoceros, leopard, elephant, and other creatures came to be as they are. Written in Kipling's famously rhythmic, playful prose, these stories combine nonsense, fable, folk-tale patterning, and comic invention, all addressed to the listening child as Best Beloved. The result is one of the most recognisable works of classic children's literature: strange, musical, witty, and full of memorable turns of language.
First published in 1902, Just So Stories began as bedtime storytelling and became one of Kipling's best-known books for younger readers. Its tales are not natural history, but literary invention: fanciful explanations for the elephant's trunk, the camel's hump, the leopard's spots, and other features of the animal world. Project Gutenberg describes the book as playful origin stories that blend whimsy with philosophy, and notes that Kipling illustrated the original stories himself.
For readers of classic children's literature, animal stories, literary fairy tales, fables, and Rudyard Kipling, Just So Stories -Illustrated remains essential: inventive, highly individual, and still unlike almost anything else in children's fiction.
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