JUST SO STORIES

'The Elephant's Child,''How the Leopead Got His Spots',the incomparable'The Cat that Walked by Himself'and the other fables in this collection were first told by Kipling to an eager nursery audience of his own children.In subject and setting they range from animals to the origins of the alphabet and form prehistoric caves to the junle forests of Africa.Illustrated with playful,riddling drawings and scattered thorugh with rhymes and poems,this is a richly inventive collection,every tale a miniature masterpiece touched with Kiplin's authentic magic.

作者简介:
RUDYARD KIPLING(1865-1936),Poet,short-story writer,journalist and imperialist,Rudyard Kipling remains one of the best chroniclers of the British colonial experience in India.
Readers may also find the following books of interest:Kingsley Amis,Rudyard Kipling and His World(1975);Charles Carrington,Rudyard Kipling;His Life and Work(1970);R.L.Green,Kipling;The Critical Heritage(1971);Rudyard Kipling,Something of Myself(1936;reissued 1977);Harold Orel,Rudyark Kipling;Interuiews and Recollionos(1983);Norman Page,A Kipling Companion(1984);J.I.M.Stewart,Rudyard Kipling (1976);and Angus Wilson,The Strange Ride of Rudyard Kipling(1977).

Rudyard Kipling

Rudyard Kipling (born Dec. 30, 1865, Bombay, India-died Jan. 18, 1936, London, Eng.) Indian-born British novelist, short-story writer, and poet. The son of a museum curator, he was reared in England but returned to India as a journalist. He soon became famous for volumes of stories, beginning with Plain Tales from the Hills (1888; including “The Man Who Would Be King”), and later for the poetry collection Barrack-Room Ballads (1892; including “Gunga Din” and “Mandalay”). His poems, often strongly rhythmic, are frequently narrative ballads. During a residence in the U.S., he published a novel, The Light That Failed (1890); the two Jungle Books (1894, 1895), stories of the wild boy Mowgli in the Indian jungle that have become children's classics; the adventure story Captains Courageous (1897); and Kim (1901), one of the great novels of India. He wrote six other volumes of short stories and several other verse collections. His children's books include the famous Just So Stories (1902) and the fairy-tale collection Puck of Pook's Hill (1906). He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907. His extraordinary popularity in his own time declined as his reputation suffered after World War I because of his widespread image as a jingoistic imperialist.

The Just So Stories for Little Children were written by British author Rudyard Kipling. They are highly fantasised origin stories and are among his best known, and arguably best, works.

Distant lands, the beautiful gardens of splendid palaces, the sea, the jungle and its beasts, even the desert, are the exotic settings for these stories. Inspired by Kipling's natural empathy with the animal world the subjects range from the animals themselves to the origins of things.

Book Dimension
Height (mm) 180　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 Width (mm) 110

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 Simg-Song of Old Man Kangaroo
The Beginning of the Armadillos
How the First Letter was Written
How the Alphabet was Made
The Grab that Played with the Sea
The Cat that Wlaked by Himself
The Butterfly that Stamped