Books with title A Collection of Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories

Just So Stories for Little Children is a 1902 collection of origin stories by the British author Rudyard Kipling. Considered a classic of children's literature, the book is among Kipling's best-known works.Kipling began working on the book by telling the first three chapters as bedtime stories to his daughter Josephine. These had to be told "just so" (exactly in the words she was used to) or she would complain. The stories describe how one animal or another acquired its most distinctive features, such as how the leopard got his spots. For the book, Kipling illustrated the stories himself.The stories have appeared in a variety of adaptations including musical and animated films. Evolutionary biologists have noted that what Kipling did in fiction in a Lamarckian way, they have done in reality, providing Darwinian explanations for the evolutionary development of animal features.

Just So Stories for Little Children is a 1902 collection of origin stories by the British author Rudyard Kipling. Considered a classic of children's literature, the book is among Kipling's best-known works.Kipling began working on the book by telling the first three chapters as bedtime stories to his daughter Josephine. These had to be told "just so" (exactly in the words she was used to) or she would complain. The stories describe how one animal or another acquired its most distinctive features, such as how the leopard got his spots. For the book, Kipling illustrated the stories himself.The stories have appeared in a variety of adaptations including musical and animated films. Evolutionary biologists have noted that what Kipling did in fiction in a Lamarckian way, they have done in reality, providing Darwinian explanations for the evolutionary development of animal features.

Rudyard Kipling is one of the greatest short-story writers in the English language, and it was the medium in which he wrote most personally and most profusely. The India of the Raj, into which Kipling was born in 1865, is vividly portrayed in all its many-splendoured moods, from the snobbery of Simla drawing rooms to the golden mosques and perfumed gardens of Lahore. But his writing went beyond these experiences of Empire to embrace the multiplicity of Kipling's interests and ideas, and to capture the extraordinary times through which he lived. Whatever his subject - trench warfare, murder on the barrack-square, futuristic modes of transportation, polo matches, early radio experiments - he wrote with verve, detail and energy, which lovers of his poetry and children's books will immediately recognise and embrace. From high adventure to doomed romance, ghostly encounters to military yarns, social comedy to flights of scientific fancy, here are more than 200 tales by a master storyteller, arranged chronologically in five volumes from Kipling's first published story, in 1884, to his final collection, Limits and Renewals, in 1932.

The Day's Work is a collection of short stories by Rudyard Kipling. It was first published in 1898. There are no poems included between the different stories in The Day's Work, as there are in many other of Kipling's collections.The book contains 13 short stories, which were were mainly written between 1893 and 1896 while Kipling was living in Vermont. Four of the stories contained in The Day's Work include anthropomorphic characters."The Bridge-Builders""A Walking Delegate""The Ship that Found Herself""The Tomb of His Ancestors""The Devil and the Deep Sea""William the Conqueror - part I""William the Conqueror - part II"".007""The Maltese Cat""Bread upon the Waters""An Error in the Fourth Dimension""My Sunday at Home""The Brushwood Boy"

Just So Stories for Little Children is a 1902 collection of origin stories by the British author Rudyard Kipling. Considered a classic of children's literature, the book is among Kipling's best known works. Kipling began working on the book by telling the first three chapters as bedtime stories to his daughter Josephine. These had to be told "just so" (exactly in the words she was used to) or she would complain. The stories describe how one animal or another acquired its most distinctive features, such as how the Leopard got his spots. For the book, Kipling illustrated the stories himself. The stories have appeared in a variety of adaptations including a musical and animated films. Evolutionary biologists have noted that what Kipling did in fiction, they have done in reality, providing explanations for the evolutionary development of animal features.The stories, first published in 1902, are origin stories, fantastic accounts of how various features of animals came to be. A forerunner of these stories is Kipling's "How Fear Came", in The Second Jungle Book (1895). In it, Mowgli hears the story of how the tiger got his stripes.The Just So Stories each tell how a particular animal was modified from an original form to its current form by the acts of man, or some magical being. For example, the Whale has a tiny throat because he swallowed a mariner, who tied a raft inside to block the whale from swallowing other men. The Camel has a hump given to him by a djinn as punishment for the camel's refusing to work (the hump allows the camel to work longer between times of eating). The Leopard's spots were painted by an Ethiopian (after the Ethiopian painted himself black). The Kangaroo gets its powerful hind legs, long tail, and hopping gait after being chased all day by a dingo, sent by a minor god responding to the Kangaroo's request to be made different from all other animals. The Just So Stories began as bedtime stories told to his daughter "Effie" [Josephine, Kipling's firstborn]; when the first three were published in a children’s magazine, a year before her death, Kipling explained: "in the evening there were stories meant to put Effie to sleep, and you were not allowed to alter those by one single little word. They had to be told just so; or Effie would wake up and put back the missing sentence. So at last they came to be like charms, all three of them,—the whale tale, the camel tale, and the rhinoceros tale."..... Joseph Rudyard Kipling ( 30 December 1865 – 18 January 1936) was an English journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist. Kipling's works of fiction include The Jungle Book (1894), Kim (1901), and many short stories, including "The Man Who Would Be King" (1888).His poems include "Mandalay" (1890), "Gunga Din" (1890), "The Gods of the Copybook Headings" (1919), "The White Man's Burden" (1899), and "If—" (1910). He is regarded as a major innovator in the art of the short story; his children's books are classics of children's literature; and one critic described his work as exhibiting "a versatile and luminous narrative gift". Kipling was one of the most popular writers in the United Kingdom, in both prose and verse, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Henry James said: "Kipling strikes me personally as the most complete man of genius, as distinct from fine intelligence, that I have ever known." In 1907, at the age of 42, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, making him the first English-language writer to receive the prize, and its youngest recipient to date.He was also sounded out for the British Poet Laureateship and on several occasions for a knighthood, both of which he declined. Kipling's subsequent reputation has changed according to the political and social climate of the age and the resulting contrasting views about him continued for much of the 20th century. ...

A collection of 100+ Rudyard Kipling’s novels, poems and short stories in 15 books. It contains: The Jungle Book, The Second Jungle Book, Kim, The Story Of The Gadsby, Plain Tales From The Hills, The Phantom 'Rickshaw And Other Ghost Stories, The Light That Failed, Many Inventions, "Captains Courageous" : A Story Of The Grand Banks, The Day's Work, Stalky & Co., Just So Stories For Little Children, Puck Of Pook's Hill, Rewards And Fairies, Life's Handicap: Being Stories Of Mine Own People.