JUST SO STORIES

by Rudyard Kipling

Overview

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•Bibliography Timeline of the Author
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•Additional references resources on the life and times of Rudyard Kipling
The Just So Stories for Little Children are a collection written by the British author Rudyard Kipling. Highly fantasized origin stories, especially for differences among animals, they are among Kipling's best known works. "Just So Stories" is Rudyard Kipling's classic collection of animal fables and poetry.
The following stories are included in the collection along with Kipling's original illustrations: 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, and The Butterfly That Stamped.
The Jungle Book (a collection of stories which includes "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi"), the Just So Stories (1902), Kim (1901), and many short stories, including "The Man Who Would Be King" (1888); and his poems include "Mandalay" (1890), "Gunga Din" (1890), "The Gods of the Copybook Headings" (1919), "The White Man's Burden" (1899), and "If--" (1910). He is regarded as a major innovator in the art of the short story; his children's books are enduring classics of children's literature; and one critic described his work as exhibiting "a versatile and luminous narrative gift".

Product Details

BN ID:	2940162049746
Publisher:	Steinbeck Publishers
Publication date:	06/02/2018
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

1865 30 December, Joseph Rudyard Kipling ("RK") born in Bombay, son of John Lockwood Kipling (Head of Department of Architectural Sculpture at the government School of Art) and of Alice Kipling, née Macdonald. Both of his grandfathers were Methodist ministers
1868 First visit to England; his sister Alice ("Trix") born there.
1871 RK and Trix again taken to England and left there for six years, boarding with Captain and Mrs Holloway at Lorne Lodge, Southsea; their parents returned to India. Captain Holloway died. Mrs Holloway disliked RK, who was also bullied by her son. RK became deeply unhappy. He later described occasional holidays spent in London with his mother's sister Georgiana Burne-Jones and her husband, the artist Edward Burne-Jones, as "a Paradise that I verily believe saved me.
1877 Alice Kipling arrived from India and took her son away from Southsea, though Trix remained there for a time. RK became a pupil at the United Services College, Westward Ho!, Devon, a cheap boarding school for the sons of army officers and civil servants, where conditions were spartan but the teaching good.
1880 Returning to Southsea to fetch his sister, RK met her fellow-boarder Florence Garrard with whom he fell in love. The relationship, more important to him than to Flo, would be broken off and resumed several times.
1881 RK made editor of the school magazine. A booklet of his poems, Schoolboy Lyrics privately printed by his parents without his knowledge. Left school. Returned to India in October and travelled to join his parents, now at Lahore. Began work there as assistant editor on the Civil and Military Gazette, a local English language newspaper for the British in northern India.