{"product_id":"just-so-stories-isbn-9780141442402","title":"Just So Stories","description":"\u003cb\u003eA relentlessly inventive collection of myths that betray a deep love and respect for the natural world\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA Penguin Classic\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Camel gets his Hump, the Whale his Throat, and the Leopard his Spots  in these bewitching stories that conjure up distant lands, the  beautiful gardens of splendid palaces, and the jungle and its creatures.  Inspired by Rudyard Kipling's delight in human eccentricities and the  animal world, and based on bedtime stories he told to his daughter,  these strikingly imaginative fables explore the myths of creation, the  nature of beasts, and the origins of language and writing. They are  linked by poems and scattered with Kipling's illustrations, which  contain hidden jokes, symbols, and puzzles.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.\u003cb\u003eBy the Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eRudyard Kipling\u003c\/b\u003e (1865–1936) was born in Bombay. During his time at the United Services College, he began to write poetry, privately publishing \u003ci\u003eSchoolboy Lyrics \u003c\/i\u003ein 1881. The following year he started work as a journalist in India, and while there produced a body of work, stories, sketches, and poems —including “Mandalay,” “Gunga Din,” and “Danny Deever”—which made him an instant literary celebrity when he returned to England in 1889. While living in Vermont with his wife, an American, Kipling wrote \u003ci\u003eThe Jungle Books\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eJust So Stories\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eKim\u003c\/i\u003e—which became widely regarded as his greatest long work, putting him high among the chronicles of British expansion. Kipling returned to England in 1902, but he continued to travel widely and write, though he never enjoyed the literary esteem of his early years. In 1907, he became the first British writer to be awarded the Nobel Prize.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJan Montefiore\u003c\/b\u003e (editor) is a professor of twentieth-century English literature at the University of Kent. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eMen and Women Writers of the 1930s\u003c\/i\u003e (1996); \u003ci\u003eArguments of Heart and Mind: Selected Essays 1977-2000\u003c\/i\u003e (2002); \u003ci\u003eFeminism and Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e (3rd edition, 2004); and \u003ci\u003eRudyard Kipling \u003c\/i\u003e(2007). \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJudith Plotz\u003c\/b\u003e (introducer) teaches at George Washington University. Her most recent book is \u003ci\u003eRomanticism and the Vocation of Childhood\u003c\/i\u003e (2001).","brand":"Penguin Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44861792977125,"sku":"NP9780141442402","price":12.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780141442402.jpg?v=1767730587","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/just-so-stories-isbn-9780141442402","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}