Just So Stories by Kipling, Rudyard (9781617205897)

Just So Stories

by Kipling, Rudyard

Paperback - English

The stories, first published in 1902, are pourquoi stories, fantastic accounts of how various phenomena came about. A forerunner of these stories is "How Fear Came" in The Second Jungle Book (1895), in which Mowgli hears the story of how the tiger got his stripes

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ADDITIONAL INFO

ISBN

1617205893

EAN

9781617205897

Publisher

SMK BOOKS

Publication Date

12 Jan 2012

Pages

Age Group

3 to 12

Grades

P to 07

Weight (kg)

0.13

Dimensions (cm)

22.9 x 15.2 x 0.5

Lexile Level

1060

About Author

Nobel prize-winning writer Rudyard Kipling was born in Bombay, India, but returned with his parents to England at the age of five. Influenced by experiences in both India and England, Kipling's stories celebrate British imperialism and the experience of the British soldier in India. Amongst Kipling's best-known works are The Jungle Book, Just So Stories, and the poems "Mandalay" and "Gunga Din." Kipling was the first English-language writer to receive the Nobel prize for literature (1907) and was amongst the youngest to receive the award. Kipling died in 1936 and is interred in Poets' Corner i