by Rudyard Kipling · Penguin Books Ltd · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140621136
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«Just So Stories» is a children's storybook by Rudyard Kipling, published by Penguin Books Ltd in paperback (160 pages, in English).
These tales imagine the origin of animal traits and habits: the camel's hump, the leopard's spots, or the elephant's trunk. Kipling draws on the fables he told his daughter to create exotic and amusing settings, with allusions to creation and the origin of language, and includes his own poems and illustrations.
Edition from the Penguin Popular Classics collection published on 25 August 1994. The work originally appeared in 1902 and received the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award in 1967.
Intended for young and adult readers interested in classic narrative and animal stories.
Joseph Rudyard Kipling was an English journalist, novelist, poet and short-story writer. He was born in British India, which inspired much of his work.
