Just So Stories [with Biographical Introduction]
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| Rating | : | 4.10 (676 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B000FC1C7I |
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| Number of Pages | : | 305 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-03-28 |
| Language | : | English |
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"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.
"Cash grab from the public domain" according to Engineer Brent. My criticism is specific to the Kindle format: The "illustrations" are mostly photos and artwork that often have nothing (or little) to do with the text. The formatting is horrible with missing chapter titles. And then there are the many, many typos (presumably from faulty OCR) that indicate no one ever proof-read it. The only reason to pay for a public domain. Mostly there, but missing things Being a free Kindle edition, I was expecting that the drawings and their attached descriptions would be missing. What I was not expecting was for the little poems often found in the stories to also be missing. Things like the Sloka the Parsee sings after the Rhinoceros eats his cake, that are usually block-quoted and italicized in published versions, are not i. Perfect for adults Juliana This new edition of Just So Stories is fantastic! One note: this edition is the published version of Kipling's original stories, word for word. Older editions were edited for certain words now considered offensive, particularly racial terms. This new edition, however, includes such words in an effort to protect Kipling's original syntax, a fact which customers
From Publishers Weekly HarperChildren's Audio continues its re-release rollout of classic backlist titles with Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories and Other Tales performed by the late British actor Boris Karloff. Just So stories include "How the Leopard Got His Spots" and "The Elephant's Child"; the "other stories" are tales from Kipling's The Jungle Book, including "Mowgli's Brothers." Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.