Just So Stories - Couverture souple

Kipling, Rudyard

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1857939042 ISBN 13 : 9781857939040

Editeur : Chrysalis Children's Books, 1997

Synopsis

Rudyard Kipling''s Just So Stories are a clas sic part of children''s literature. Safaya Salter provides il lustrations to the tales which explain some of the mysteries of the animal world. '

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Once upon a time, O my Best Beloved . . . So begins this classic collection of gloriously fanciful tales of how things in the world came to be as they are. This collection includes the story of how the lazy camel found himself with a hump and how the insatiable curiosity of the elephant earned him his long trunk. It reveals how the whale was given a throat, and why every rhinoceros has great folds in his skin and a very bad temper. We also find out about the cunning cat that walked by itself, and how clever little Taffy and her Daddy Tegumai made the first alphabet. Rudyard Kipling first entertained his own children with these delightful, warm, and humorous stories, which he later wrote down for publication in 1902. Conjuring up distant lands and exotic jungles, they are bewitching for both children and adults. This sumptuous volume offers the complete and unabridged text, including the often-missing 13th story, "The Tabu Tal," which Kipling added for the American edition in 1903.

Quatrième de couverture

'Hear and attend and listen; for this befell and behappened and became and was'

Have you ever enquired why the elephant has such an enormously elongated nose? Are you confused by a cat's contrary nature? Have you ruminated on the wrinkles of a rhinocerous? Or speculated on a leopard's spots? Rudyard Kipling wondered about all these things too, and in this marvellous collection of stories he imagines how the animals became 'just so'.

BACKSTORY: Find out why Just So Stories is one of Philip Pullman’s favourite books and discover wacky facts about wild animals!

Turn to page 75 to see the Elephant's Child having his nose pulled by the Crocodile!

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Chrysalis Children's Books
• Date d'édition: 1997
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1857939042
• ISBN 13: 9781857939040
• Reliure: Broché
• Illustrateur: Salter Safaya
• Nombre de pages: 125
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• Personne responsable: non disponible