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Just so stories
Author
Title
Just so stories / Rudyard Kipling ; illustrated by Nicolas.
Published
Garden City, N.Y. : Garden City Books, c1952.
Physical Description
84 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Local Notes
BEIN Richards Kipling 1233: Pictorial dust jacket. Bookplate of Edna Voigt. Bound in blue cloth, illustration on front cover in yellow and white, lettered in yellow. From the David Alan Richards Collection of Rudyard Kipling.
Summary
Twelve short stories, most of which tell how such things as the alphabet, the camel's hump, and the elephant's trunk came to be.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
September 13, 2016
Contents
How the whale got his throat
How the camel got his hump
How the rhinoceros got his skin
How the leopard got his spots
The elephant's child
The sing-song of old man kangaroo
The beginning of the armadillos
How the first letter was written
How the alphabet was made
The crab that played with the sea
The cat that walked by himself
The butterfly that stamped.
Subjects
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Short stories.
Short stories.
Fiction.
Juvenile works.
Pictorial cloth bindings (Binding)
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