· The Elephant's Child from the Just So Stories of Rudyard Kipling tells the story of how the elephant got its trunk. Set on he banks of the great grey-green, greasy Limpopo River in Reviews: The Elephant’s Child sat there for three days waiting for his nose to shrink. But it never grew any shorter, and, besides, it made him squint. For, O Best Beloved, you will see and understand that the Crocodile had pulled it out into a really truly trunk same as all Elephants have to-day. · This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at bltadwin.ru Title: Just So Stories Author: Rudyard Kipling Release Date: Decem [EBook #] Last Updated: October 7, Language: .
Eminent man of letters and Nobel prize-winner for literature, Rudyard Kipling () wrote delightful tales about animals for children. His Just So Stories, brimming with playful whimsy and satire, have charmed young and old alike for generations. Six cleverly concocted fables from that popular collection have been selected for this volume. Rudyard Kipling is one of the best-known of the late Victorian poets and story-tellers. Although he was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in , his political views, which grew more toxic as he aged, have long made him critically unpopular. In the New Yorker, Charles McGrath remarked "Kipling has been variously labelled a colonialist, a jingoist, a racist, an anti-Semite, a misogynist. JUST SO STORIES FOR LITTLE CHILDREN THE ELEPHANT'S CHILD Rudyard Kipling Kipling, Rudyard () - An English novelist, short-story writer, and poet who spent most of his youth in India, and is best known for his children's classics. In , Kipling was the first English writer ever to be awarded the Nobel Prize in literature.
Skip to Content. ; My Account. Create an Account; Sign In. The Elephant's Child: And Other Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling starting at $ The Elephant's Child: And Other Just So Stories has 1 available editions to buy at Half Price Books Marketplace. Eight fanciful tales from Rudyard Kipling's book of animal origin tales, which began as bedtime stories told to his daughter Essie. They are called Just So Stories because Essie would not let Kipling deviate from the tale by even one word: They had to be told "just so".
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