
Just So Stories
Edited by Lisa Lewis
Rudyard Kipling(Author)
Oxford Paperbacks (Publisher)
Published on 2. April 1998
Book
Paperback/Softback
304 pages
978-0-19-283436-2 (ISBN)
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Description
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 traditions he later collected all over the world. He plays games with language, exploring the relationships between thought, speech, and 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 icludes two extra stories and Kipling's own explanation of the title.
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Edition
New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Oxford University Press
Edition type
New edition
Illustrations
original line drawings by the author
Dimensions
Height: 196 mm
Width: 129 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-19-283436-2 (9780192834362)
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