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  • Published: 1 February 2011
  • ISBN: 9781409058489
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 240

Just So Stories





'These stories have the ageless resonance of myth, for beneath his addictive adventures and hypnotic prose, Kipling was grappling with big questions: who are we? Where do we come from? How should we live?' Daily Telegraph


'They sing in my head even now... What a wonderful storyteller/poet he was' Michael Morpurgo, Guardian

Have you ever wondered how the leopard got his spots? Or how the camel got his hump? Rudyard Kipling's witty and beautifully written stories explain these secrets and many more and introduce such memorable characters as the Elephant's Child, the Cat that Walked by Himself and the Butterfly that Stamped.

'Quite irresistible' The Times
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY PHILIP PULLMAN

  • Published: 1 February 2011
  • ISBN: 9781409058489
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 240

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Praise for Just So Stories

Kipling is a writer for our times, and for all time

Roger Moore, The Times

Kipling was one of the greatest wordsmiths of the English language and these fables are told in a simple and irresistible manner. They're timeless

Martin Bell, Daily Express

The Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling have always held a fascination for me, and doubtless sparked off my love of India

H.M The Prince of Wales

Today's children would do well to abandon their computers and iPods for an hour or two and read him

Griff Rhys Jones, Daily Mail

Weird and wonderful

Daily Telegraph