Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling

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Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling

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Has anybody here read this collection of stories? Very amusing, fanciful, imaginative and interesting answers to questions children are always likely to ask.

I first came into contact with them when 'How the Camel Got his Hump' was a chapter in this year's English Textbook (2008-2009). I was hooked and intrigued by this story and therefore searched for the full collection. At first it was fruitless but finally I got a copy recently. A nice Indian edition.

As for Kipling's other work, I read a (very) abridged edition of The Jungle Book when I was about 9. I have yet to read the original, as well as Kim.
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I haven't read the Just So Stories for years, but I did re-read some of the Jungle Book stories not long ago. I've always liked the tale of Rikki-tikki-tavi the mongoose. My copy of the Jungle Book (books 1 and 2 in one volume, in fact) is illustrated by Stuart Tresilian.

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I love Stuart Tresilian's illustrations for The Jungle Book. I also have the 'double' version with first and second Jungle Books, a very good condition hardback, with dust wrapper, 1955 edition. It's actually a book I haven't read yet!
'Oh voice of Spring of Youth
hearts mad delight,
Sing on, sing on, and when the sun is gone
I'll warm me with your echoes
through the night.'

(E. Blyton, Sunday Times, 1951)



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