Just So Stories

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Age range 7 & up

Following the initial success of The Jungle Book, Rudyard Kipling published the collection of parables Just SoStories. He first entertained his own children with these delightful and humorous tales before deciding to writethem down for publication. The stories are written in the form of what came to be also known as pourqoui(French for "why") stories, each explaining how and why things came to be as they are.From "How the Camel Got His Hump" to the classic "How the Whale Got His Throat," Kipling masterfully tellsthese origin stories, describing how each of these animals developed their distinct characteristics. This classiccollection also includes stories featuring other subjects such as the beginnings of the alphabet and the first letter.Kipling spins anecdotes which envisioned intriguing animals and exotic jungles that still resonate with readerstoday.

This volume also features thirteen full-colorillustrations and more than thirty black-and-whiteillustrations by J. M.Gleeson and Paul Bransom, as well as several images created by Kipling himself. With their entertainingcharacters and well-executednarrative arcs, these tales are perfect for readers both young and oldto readseparately and, more importantly, together.

Reviews

Theyve delighted both adults and children for nearly eight decades. What keeps the dust off Kipling is his unharnessed imagination and language so playful it begs to be read aloud.
Los Angeles Times

Graceful prose and pungent humor In the same league with such childrens classics as Winnie the Pooh and Alice in Wonderland Kiplings fantastic fictions hark to a golden age of storytelling.
Publishers Weekly

It has, like all good fairy-business, a sound core of philosophy.
Atlantic Monthly

Intimately told Extraordinary ingenuity and inventiveness.
Guardian
Theyve delighted both adults and children for nearly eight decades. What keeps the dust off Kipling is his unharnessed imagination and language so playful it begs to be read aloud.
Los Angeles Times

Graceful prose and pungent humor In the same league with such childrens classics as Winnie the Pooh and Alice in Wonderland Kiplings fantastic fictions hark to a golden age of storytelling.
Publishers Weekly

It has, like all good fairy-business, a sound core of philosophy.
Atlantic Monthly

Intimately told Extraordinary ingenuity and inventiveness.
Guardian

Author Bio

Rudyard Kipling was born in Bombay, India, in 1865. Kipling was one of the most revered writers in recent history, and many of his works are deemed classic literature. To this day, he maintains an avid following and reputation as one of the greatest storytellers of the past two centuries. He published hundreds of short stories, novels, and poetry collections, including the short story The Man Who Would Be King and the famed poem If. In 1907, he received the Nobel Prize for Literature. He died in 1936, but his stories live oneven nearly one hundred years after his passing.

J. M. Gleeson and Paul Bransom were both illustrators during the early 1900s.