We publish rare and vintage Golden Age illustrated books, in high-quality colour editions, so that the masterful artwork and story-telling can continue to delight both young and old. Pook Press celebrates the great 'Golden Age of Illustration' in children's classics and fairy tales - a period of unparalleled excellence in book illustration. He is most famous for his poems concerning British soldiers in India and his wonderful children's stories. Joseph Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) was a seminal English writer of short stories, novelist, and poet. These wonderful tales are accompanied by beautiful illustrations by Joseph M. Contents include: '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', and more. This wonderful collection would make for ideal bedtime reading, and is well deserving of a place on every family bookshelf. These fantastically imaginative origin stories are amongst the best known of Kipling's works, and offer entertaining explanations as to how various animals came into being. Delight in these 12 delightful tales that reveal how the whale got his throat, how the Camel got his hump, how the leopard received his spots, and much more!.This book contains Rudyard Kipling's 1902 collection of short stories, 'Just So Stories'. The passage of time has not diminished their popularity for young and old readers alike. Even after all these years, these stories are just as or exactly as they were. This was the same year that Kipling bought a house in Sussex, where he would spend the rest of his life. Her phrase inspired Kipling to name this collection ‘just so stories’ when it was first published in the year 1902. Josephine died tragically of pneumonia in 1899, and her death plunged Kipling into grief.
Josephine would often insist that her father repeat these stories just as or exactly as they were, using the phrase ‘just so’. Kipling wrote these stories initially as bedtime stories to narrate to his first daughter, Josephine.
€˜Just so stories’ was published as ‘the just so stories for little children’, and is regarded among Rudyard Kipling’s best-known works for children.
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