Just So Stories for Little Children

Author:
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781474938051
Category : Animals
Languages : en
Pages : 160

Book Description
A wonderful collection of six of Kipling's well-loved stories, telling how animals came to be the way they are, comprising: How the Camel got his Hump, How the Whale got his Throat, How the Elephant got his Trunk, How the Rhino got his Skin, How the Leopard got his Spots and Why the Kangaroo Jumps. *Lively text, specially written for little children, accompanied by John Joven's stunning illustrations. A pleasure to read aloud and share. Enchanting artwork and a high-quality hardback production make this Kipling collection a book to treasure.

How the Leopard Got His Spots

Author: Rudyard Kipling
Publisher: ABDO
ISBN: 9781596793446
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40

Book Description
Relates how the leopard got his spotted coat in order to hunt the animals in the dappled shadows of the forest.

Rudyard Kipling's The Elephant's Child

Author: Rudyard Kipling
Publisher: Grosset & Dunlap
ISBN: 9780448343068
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36

Book Description
Because of his "satiable curtiosity" about what the crocodile has for dinner, the elephant's child and all elephants thereafter have long trunks. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

How the Just So Stories Were Made

Author: John Batchelor
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300258259
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 249

Book Description
A fascinating, richly illustrated exploration of the poignant origins of Rudyard Kipling’s world-famous children’s classic From "How the Leopard Got Its Spots" to "The Elephant’s Child," Rudyard Kipling’s Just So Stories have delighted readers across the world for more than a century. In this original study, John Batchelor explores the artistry with which Kipling created the Just So Stories, using each tale as an entry point into the writer’s life and work—including the tragedy that shadows much of the volume, the death of his daughter Josephine. Batchelor details the playful challenges the stories made to contemporary society. In his stories Kipling played with biblical and other stories of creation and imagined fantastical tales of animals' development and man's discovery of literacy. Richly illustrated with original drawings and family photographs, this account reveals Kipling’s public and private lives—and sheds new light on a much-loved and tremendously influential classic.

Fairy Tales for Little Children

Author: Jenny Tyler
Publisher: Picture Book Collection
ISBN: 9780746098226
Category : Children's stories
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
"This is a beautiful treasury of picture books perfect for young children ... Each story is beautifully illustrated and perfect for either reading aloud or for more confident readers to tackle alone"--Publisher's description.

Favorite Just So Stories

Author: Rudyard Kipling
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780448126913
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

Book Description

A Collection of Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories

Author: Rudyard Kipling
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781406301427
Category : Children's stories, English
Languages : en
Pages : 128

Book Description
How did the rhinoceros get his wrinkly skin? Why won't cats come when they're called? How did one curious elephant change the lives of all elephants? These eight best-loved stories give answers to these and other intriguing questions.

The Cat That Walked by Himself (Illustrated)

Author: Rudyard Kipling
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781727854749
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 34

Book Description
Rare edition with unique illustrations. Kipling wrote some of the best animal stories for children, including his Jungle Books and Just So stories. His language is rich, inventive, and sonorous. He is regarded as a major innovator in the art of the short story; his children's books are classics of children's literature. Originally collected in Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories in 1902, The Cat that Walked by Himself is one of the best-loved cat tales ever written. It is a story of the beginning of domesticated life: Man meets Woman and they move into a cave and set up the first household. Dog, Horse, and Cow come out of the Wild Woods and become tame. But Cat refuses, "I am not a friend and I am not a servant. I am the Cat who walks by himself and all places are alike to me." Woman makes a bargain with Cat to allow him to come into the cave and sit by the fire and drink milk. But when night comes, he is once again the Cat that walks by himself.

Just so stories for little children

Author: Rudyard Kipling
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 300

Book Description

Just So Stories

Author: Rudyard Kipling
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 210

Book Description
Just So Stories for Little Children is a 1902 collection of origin stories by the British author Rudyard Kipling. Considered a classic of children's literature, the book is among Kipling's best known works. Kipling began working on the book by telling the first three chapters as bedtime stories to his daughter Josephine. These had to be told "just so" (exactly in the words she was used to) or she would complain. The stories describe how one animal or another acquired its most distinctive features, such as how the leopard got his spots. For the book, Kipling illustrated the stories himself.