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How did the camel get his hump? Why won't cats do as they are told? How did an inquisitive little elephant change the lives of elephants everywhere? Kipling's imagined answers to such questions draw on the beast fables of India. This illustrated edition includes two extra stories and Kipling's own explanation of the title.

Title Just so stories for little children / Rudyard Kipling
with illustrations by the author
edited with an introduction and notes by Lisa Lewis. [electronic resource]
Publisher Oxford : Oxford University Press
Creation Date 2020
Notes Previously issued in print: 1996.
Includes bibliographical references.
English
Content Cover
Contents
General Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Note on the Text
Select Bibliography
A Chronology of Kipling's Life and Works
JUST SO STORIES
Appendices
Explanatory Notes
Series Oxford world's classics
Extent 1 online resource (305 p.)
Language English
National Library system number 997010712611405171
MARC RECORDS
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