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 114 pp $19.99 • £14.49 Adventure, Children Book
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Just so Stories
Rudyard Kipling
Written originally for his own children, Rudyard Kipling’s Just So Stories have continued to delight generations of youngsters since they were first published in 1902. The thirteen stories col- lected in this book are meant for very young children, but they en- gage older kids and adults too with their charming conversational style and simple plot lines.
These stories are typical examples of the “origin” story, where children are provided with imaginative rather than practical ex- planations for the “why” “what” “how” “where” “who” “when” questions of childhood. The Just So Stories were tales that Kipling would tell his own daughter who tragically died in infancy of pneumonia.
“This is the bedtime book of my childhood. I love it, and I often refer to it. (Everybody knows a “Cat who Walks by Himself,” right?) It ushered-in a life- long love of Kipling and evocative and often amusing stories of animals and the Raj. This one was my favorite...a book of amusingly charming parables for the young and not-so-young. I also loved “The Jungle Book” and “The Second Jungle Book.” Akela the wolf was my hero, and I was unendly jealous
of Mowgli, the boy raised by wolves.” J. Gray
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