Just So Stories (Wordsworth Children's Classics)

by RudyardKipling (Author)

• New

  Illustrated
  1993

  $6.71

  These witty stories were originally told by Rudyard Kipling to his own children. In them he gives fanciful accounts of how and why things came to be as they are. Generations of children have delighted to learn how the Leopard got his spots, how the Elephant's Child on the banks of the great grey-green Limpopo acquired his trunk with the help of the Crocodile, and the beginning of the Armadillos. Beautifully illustrated in black-and-white by the author, these delightful tales will hold the reader and listener spellbound.

• Used

  Paperback
  1984

  $21.12

• Used

  Hardcover
  1987

  $3.25

• New

  Hardcover
  1992

  $15.81

  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.