Just So Stories: For Little Children (Twentieth Century Classics S.)

by Rudyard Kipling (Author), Peter Levi (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  1989

  $3.85

  Kipling's own drawings, with their long, funny captions, illustrate his hilarious explanations of How the Camel Got His Hump, How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin, How the Armadillo Happened, and other animal How's. He began inventing these stories in his American wife's hometown of Brattleboro, Vermont, to amuse his eldest daughter--and they have served ever since as a source of laughter for children everywhere.

• Used

  Paperback
  1984

  $21.42

• Used

  Hardcover
  1987

  $3.29

• New

  Hardcover
  1992

  $16.03

  Kipling began these stories in Vermont, to amuse his daughter when they were living in his wife's home town. The comic explanations, such as how the camel got his hump and how the whale got his throat, are complemented by the author's illustrations, with their extensive and ridiculous captions.