Just So Stories [ Illustrated ]
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| Rating | : | 4.85 (707 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B00BV9UIWO |
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| Number of Pages | : | 170 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-10-09 |
| Language | : | English |
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"Perfect for adults" according to 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 ori. Engineer Brent said Cash grab from the public domain. 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 on. Lodrelhai said 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 italici
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.
Highly fantasised origin stories, especially for differences among animals, they are among Kipling's best known works.The stories, first published in 1902, are pourquoi (French for "why") or origin stories, fantastic accounts of how various phenomena came about. The Camel has a hump given to him by a djinn as punishment for the camel's refusing to work (the hump allows the camel to work longer between times of eating). A forerunner of these stories is Kipling's "How Fear Came," included in his The Second Jungle Book (1895). The Leopard's spots were painted by an Ethiopian (after the Ethiopian painted himself black). For example, the Whale has a tiny throat because he swallowed a mariner, who tied a raft inside to block the w