Just So Stories (Wordsworth Children's Classics) by Rudyard Kipling
Rudyard Kipling . Unknown Year . English
These witty stories were originally told by Kipling to his own children. In them he gives fanciful accounts of how and why things came to be as they are. Stories include how the leopard got his spots, and the beginning of armadillos.
Categories: Short Stories (Fiction)
About the Author
Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) was born in Bombay in December 1865. He returned to India from England shortly before his seventeenth birthday, to work as a journalist first on the Civil and Military Gazette in Lahore, then on the Pioneer at Allahabad. The poems and stories he wrote over the next seven years laid the foundation of his literary reputation, and soon after his return to London in 1889 he found himself world-famous. Throughout his life his works enjoyed great acclaim and popularity, but he came to seem increasingly controversia 100 134k 0 134k 0 0 75073 0 --:--:-- 0:00:01 --:--:-- 75049l because of his political opinions, and it has been difficult to reach literary judgements unclouded by partisan feeling.
