Just So Stories for Little Children
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Just So Stories for Little Children
Rudyard Kipling
Children’s
James Mustich
Aug 11, 2018
There is no better place to meet Kipling and his gifts than in his Just So Stories, written for, and no doubt first spoken to, his young daughter. The twelve tales it collects provide wildly satisfying answers to questions worthy of a child’s imagination: how the camel got his hump, for instance, how the alphabet was made, and how the elephant got his trunk. The spinning of the tales is so entwined in Kipling’s prose that any parent reading the Just So Stories aloud is transformed into a master storyteller, and every Best Beloved will be happy to listen again and again. Which is a good thing, since it maps a path to a land of language, lore, and wonder that no reader should miss.
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Carlton Collister
Feb 3, 2019
Not read until I read them to my daughter, they are timeless and the alliteration of the greasy green grey Limpopo River stays with me.
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Gennifer Binder
Nov 17, 2019
A must! Every child should know these fables and apply them as appropriate.
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Eli
Jan 29
Must read!
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