Seems like the complete opposite of what you'd want to do with a decorative edition, and yet.Īnyway, pretty book with fun stories when taken with a teaspoon of salt. I've noticed similar things in a few prettified editions, like the most recent version of Neil Gaiman's.
Words were missing letters, some had been broken by syllable in order to break onto the next line but they fit on a whole line even with the dash in the middle. While this book is physically beautiful-gorgeous illustrations in black and white with the occasional glossy page insert, nice thick pages-I was surprised at how sloppy the interior was. I did discover where my expectation of overt racism in The Jungle Book came from ("Malazy", really?), and while I can't say that was a happy surprise, I have always liked animal origin myths. Also fun were The Beginning of Armadillos and the Sing-Song of Old Man Kangaroo. Surprise, surprise, my favorite story was The Cat that Walked by Himself, one I remembered best from my past reads. I was quite surprised by how many big and not-quite-correctly used words there were, considering that I read this long enough ago that I don't remember how old I was at the time (I'm usually good at remembering that sort of thing). My parents read these to me when I was young, and I read them again when I was old enough.
Chesterton so memorably put it, but also because I have such fond childhood memories of watching, and obsessively rewatching, an old VHS copy of Just So Stories, as told by none other than Jack Nicholson (with musical accompaniment by Bobby McFerrin), but I suppose you can’t go home again and all that.A short, fun read of the book I've been thinking about since I read. Understandable as it may be, however, I do feel a little sad about the Just So baby being thrown out with the “White Man’s Burden” bathwater, not only because the stories themselves are delightful “fairy-tales from the morning of the world,” as G. Rudyard Kipling’s Just So Stories, a collection of children’s tales that describe, in fantastical language and playful verse, how the features of various animals came to be (“How the Camel Got His Hump,” “How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin,” “How the Leopard Got His Spots,” etc) turns 120 this year.Ĭonsidered a classic of children’s literature for over a century, the collection has, along with Kipling himself, fallen out of favor in recent decades because of the author being, well, a staunch jingo-imperialist who said and wrote a lot of extremely problematic things about race and empire (see: “White Man’s Burden,” et al), which, you know, fair enough. Just so stories (1912),by:Rudyard Kipling Paperback Maby Rudyard Kipling (Author) 47 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle 1.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0.00 Free with your Audible trial Hardcover 12.95 1 New from 12.95 Paperback 6.38 4 New from 6.
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