TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kipling, Rudyard
AU  - Lewis, Lisa, ed.
TI  - Just so stories: for little children
T2  - Oxford World's Classics
SN  - 0192834363
U1  - 823.8 
PY  - 1998///
CY  - Oxford
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - English literature
KW  - English fiction
KW  - Children's stories, English
KW  - Animals
KW  - Short stories
KW  - India
KW  - Picture books for children
KW  - Children's stories
N1  - Illustrations by the author
N2  - How did the camel get his hump? Why won't cats do as they are told"? Who invented reading and writing? How did an inquisitive little elephant change the lives of elephants everywhere.

Kipling's imagined answers to such questions draw on the beast fables he heard as a child in India, as well as on folk traditions he later collected all over the world. He plays games with language, exploring the relationships between thought, speech, and written word. He also celebrates his own joy in fatherhood. The tales were told to his own and his friends' children over many years before he wrote them down, adding poems and his own illustrations. They invite older and younger readers to share a magical experience, each contributing to the other's pleasure but each can also enjoy them alone, as more jokes, subtexts, and exotic references emerge with every reading.

This fully illustrated edition includes two extra stories and Kipling's own explanation of the title
ER  -