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Which Book Would You Read?

To celebrate Rudyard Kipling, we’d like to ask, which book would you read?

Just So Stories

Author: Rudyard Kipling

ISBN: 9780141321622

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 games with language, exploring the relationships between thought, speech, and the 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.

Published in 1902, these charming and whimsical fantasies for children—and adults who retain a love of the fantastic—are enduring classics.  Focusing on the explanation of origin, the book includes How the Leopard Got His SpotsHow the Camel Got His Hump and The Cat That Walked by Himself.

15,9 GEL

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The Complete Children’s Short Stories

Author: Rudyard Kipling

ISBN: 9781840220575

The Jungle Book introduces Mowgli, the boy foundling adopted by a family of wolves, Shere Khan the tiger, Bagheera the black panther and Baloo the sleepy brown bear.
How did the Leopard get his spots? How did the Elephant get his trunk? In Just So Stories, Kipling wittily supplies the answers to these and other questions.
Puck of Pook’s Hill relates how Dan and Una’s magical meeting with Puck, the last of the People of the Hills, leads to their adventures with Romans and Crusaders, Saxons and Vikings…
And later, in Rewards and Fairies, the three meet an array of characters ranging from Iron Age warriors to ‘Good Queen Bess’ and Sir Francis Drake.
In Kipling’s rattling school yarn Stalky & Co, Stalky, M’Turk and the Beetle are a trio of scallywags with a keen desire to break the rules, their unruly activities give the stories an enduring appeal to all children – especially those who have ever wilted beneath the stern glance of a peevish schoolmaster.
Kipling’s wry, sometimes tongue-in-cheek style will delight and entertain young readers while adults throughout the world will remember his stories with affection.

16,5 GEL

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