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1) How the camel got his hump

Author

Kipling, Rudyard

Series

Rabbit ears [read-alongs]

Language

English

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When the world was new, the camel, a creature of 'scruciating idleness, said "Humph!" too often and received for all time a hump[h] from the Djinn of All Deserts.

2) The elephant's child

Author

Kipling, Rudyard

Language

English

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Because of his "satiable curtiosity" about what the crocodile has for dinner, the elephant's child and all elephants thereafter have long trunks.

3) How the rhinoceros got his skin

Author

Kipling, Rudyard

Series

Rabbit ears a classic tale
Rabbit ears [read-alongs]

Publisher

Abdo

Pub. Date

2004.

Language

English

Description

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Relates how the rhinoceros's lack of manners resulted in his baggy skin and bad temper. Book and CD circulate together.

4) How the leopard got his spots

Author

Kipling, Rudyard

Series

Rabbit ears a classic tale

Publisher

Abdo

Language

English

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In the yellow hues of the African plains, hunting was easy for the leopard, whose light coat served as camouflage. When all the animals moved away, the hungry leopard had to follow them to the striped, spotted forest. But he didn't stand a chance of survival unless he acquired spots himself.

5) Just so stories for little children

Author

Kipling, Rudyard

Publisher

Weathervane

Pub. Date

1978.

Language

English

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just So Stories for Little Children is a 1902 collection of origin stories by the British author Rudyard Kipling. Considered a classic of children's literature, the book is among Kipling's best known works. Kipling began working on the book by telling the first three chapters as bedtime stories to his daughter Josephine. These had to be told "just so" (exactly in the words she was used to) or she would complain. The stories describe how one animal...

6) Kipling: a selection of his stories and poems

Author

Kipling, Rudyard

Publisher

Doubleday

Pub. Date

c1956.

Language

English

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The Jungle Book key characters are Mowgli, a boy raised by wolves and Sher Khan, biggest tiger in India. As Baloo the sleepy brown bear, Bagheera the cunning black panther, Kaa the python, and his other animal friends teach their beloved "man-cub" the ways of the jungle, Mowgli gains the strength and wisdom he needs for his frightful fight with Shere Khan, the tiger who robbed him of his human family. But there are also the tales of Rikki-tikki-tavi...

7) The phantom 'rickshaw, and other stories

Author

Kipling, Rudyard

Publisher

Standard Classics

Pub. Date

1930.

Language

English

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Five eerie ghost tales by bestselling children's author Rudyard Kipling.

8) The elephant's child: from the just so stories

Author

Kipling, Rudyard

Series

Rabbit ears [read-alongs]

Publisher

Abdo

Pub. Date

2005.

Language

English

Description

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Because of his "satiable curtiosity" about what the crocodile has for dinner, the elephant's child and all elephants thereafter have long trunks.

9) Just so stories: for little childrenVolume 1

Author

Kipling, Rudyard

Publisher

Groundwood Books, House of Anansi Press

Pub. Date

2013.

Language

English

Description

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Presents the first volume of the classic short story collection with new illustrations, including such stories as "How the whale got his throat," and "The elephant's child."

10) The essential Kipling

Author

Kipling, Rudyard

Series

CSA Word classic

Publisher

CSA Word

Pub. Date

p2009.

Language

English

11) Mrs Bathurst and other stories

Author

Kipling, Rudyard

Series

World's classics

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Pub. Date

1991.

Language

English

Description

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A selection of Kipling's later stories that range over subjects such as ghosts, hauntings, and the rejoicing of a pioneer motorist on his new-found freedom of the countryside. Two of his most famous uncollected stories are also included: "Proofs of a Holy Writ" and "'Teem', a Treasure Hunter".

12) Just so stories: for little children.Volume II

Author

Kipling, Rudyard

Publisher

Groundwood Books, House of Anansi Press

Pub. Date

2014.

Language

English

Description

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Classic collection of gloriously fanciful tales of how things in the world came to be as they are including the tales "The Butterfly That Stamped" and "How the Alphabet Was Made".

13) Something of myself: an autobiography

Author

Kipling, Rudyard

Series

Modern voices

Publisher

Hesperus

Pub. Date

2007.

Language

English

Description

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Offers an insight into the mind of Rudyard Kipling, who upheld the Victorian imperialist values of duty, patriotism and obedience, and yet sympathized with outlaws and children. This memoir describes his bitter childhood years in the 'House of Desolation', his beloved parents and his pride in his own work.

14) Complete verse

Author

Kipling, Rudyard

Publisher

Doubleday

Pub. Date

1989.

Language

English

15) A collection of Just so stories

Author

Kipling, Rudyard

Publisher

Greathall Productions

Pub. Date

p2008.

Language

English

16) A collection of Rudyard Kipling's Just so stories

Author

Kipling, Rudyard

Publisher

Candlewick

Pub. Date

2004.

Language

English

Description

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With vivid characters and an hysterically funny choice of words, Rudyard Kipling's beloved stories "explain" how camels got humps, great whales got tiny throats, elephants got trunks and more.