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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 games with language, exploring the relationships between thought, speech, and the 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 includes two extra stories and Kipling's own explanation of the title.
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""Just So Stories "was the first book I ever truly loved." Michael Morpurgo, author, "War Horse""
"Just So Stories was the first book I ever truly loved." --Michael Morpurgo, author, War Horse
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"Just So Stories was the first book I ever truly loved." --Michael Morpurgo, author, War Horse
'These stories have the ageless resonance of myth, for beneath his addictive adventures and hypnotic prose, Kipling was grappling with big questions: who are we? Where do we come from? How should we live?' Daily Telegraph
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- PublisherEveryman's Library USA
- Publication date1992
- ISBN 10 0679417974
- ISBN 13 9780679417972
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number2
- Number of pages224
- IllustratorKipling Rudyard
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