Just So Stories - Couverture rigide

Kipling, Rudyard

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1944686444 ISBN 13 : 9781944686444

Editeur : Racehorse for Young Readers, 2016

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

For Mowgli movie fans, the must-have companion to The Jungle Book!

Children all around the world are fascinated by the animal kingdom, and that’s what makes the Just So Stories a perennial classic... Elephants, kangaroos, cats, leopards, and more. This complete volume of Rudyard Kipling’s masterpiece includes all 12 original stories:

How the Whale Got His Throat

How the Camel Got His Hump

How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin

How the Leopard Got His Spots

The Elephant’s Child

The Sing-Song of Old Man Kangaroo

The Beginning of the Armadillos

How the First Letter was Written

How the Alphabet was Made

The Crab that Played with the Sea

The Cat that Walked by Himself

The Butterfly that Stamped

Kipling first entertained his own children with these delightful and humorous tales before deciding to write them down for publication. The parables are written in the form of what came to be known as “why” stories, each explaining how and why certain things came to be as they are.

In addition to these clever fables, this volume features thirteen full-color illustrations and more than thirty black-and-white illustrations by J. M. Gleeson and Paul Bransom, as well as several images created by Kipling himself. With their entertaining characters and well-executed narrative arcs, the Just So Stories are perfect for readers both young and old—to read separately and, more importantly, together.

Revue de presse :

“They’ve 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 children’s classics as Winnie the Pooh and Alice in Wonderland... Kipling’s 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

“They’ve 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 children’s classics as Winnie the Pooh and Alice in Wonderland... Kipling’s 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

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Racehorse for Young Readers
• Date d'édition: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1944686444
• ISBN 13: 9781944686444
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 256
• Illustrateur: Bransom Paul, Gleeson J. M.