JUST SO STORIES FOR CHILDREN
Author:
Rudyard Kipling
First edition:
Just so Stories for Children, 1902
Main illustrators:
Bransom Delessert Kelek Kliros Seguin-Fontes
In short:
These are enchanting short stories about India and the jungle, about the dawn of the world. Among the tales, you can find "How the Whale Got his Throat", "How the Camel Got his Hump", "How the Leopard Got his Spots", "The Elephant's Child", "The Beginning of the Armadillos", "How the Alphabet was Made" and "The Butterfly that Stamped". Kipling portrays the natural world and specially its creatures in a logical anthropomorphized manner, entertainig to adult and child alike.
Selection of edition:
Just so Stories, illustrated by Paul Bransom, Garden City, 1932.
Just so Stories, illustrated by Thea Kliros, Dover Publications, 1992.
Histoire comme ça, illustrated by Etienne Delessert, Gallimard, 1983.
Histoire comme ça, illustrated by Marino Degano, Lito, 1987.
Histoire comme ça, illustrated by Kelek, Hatier, 1989.
Histoire comme ça, illustrated by Marthe Seguin-Fontes, Livres du Dragon d'or, 1993.
More about Just so Stories:
Unlike his other works of the same period, Rudyard Kipling sets this story in his native India. The compillation includes tales of animals, Kipling's favourite subject. In the original edition, he himself illustrated these short-stories.