Just So Stories: For Little Children
Sep 2026 · Aeneas Press
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How the whale got his throat, the camel his hump, the rhinoceros his skin, the leopard his spots and the elephant his trunk, told in a voice pitched at one particular listener. Kipling made these up for his daughter Josephine, who died at six, and drew the illustrations himself with long captions in the same voice. They were built for the ear: read aloud they work, and on the page they lose half of it.
How the whale got his throat, the camel his hump, the rhinoceros his skin, the leopard his spots and the elephant his trunk, told in a voice pitched at one particular listener. Kipling made these up for his daughter Josephine, who died at six, and drew the illustrations himself with long captions...
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Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) was an English writer born in Bombay and sent to England at six to be boarded with strangers. He returned to India as a journalist at sixteen, became the most popular writer in the empire, and was the first English-language winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. His works include The Jungle Book, Kim, Just So Stories, and Plain Tales from the Hills.
Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) was an English writer born in Bombay and sent to England at six to be boarded with strangers. He returned to India as a journalist at sixteen, became the most popular writer in the empire, and was the first English-language winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. His ...
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