- Animals, Children's stories, English, Fiction, Short stories
"Once upon a time O best beloved," and so begins one of the best loved and most respected collections of stories for children, Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories. This edition includes the author's own unique illustrations.
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- Author
- Rudyard Kipling
- First published
- 1925
- Pages
- 237
- Publisher
- Doubleday Page, Delagrave/Gallimard Jeunesse, Chatham River Press
- Editions
- 64
- Language
- Italian, dan, French, und
- ISBN
- 9781417916788
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“IN THE SEA, once upon a time, O my Best Beloved, there was a Whale, and he ate fishes.”
Rudyard Kipling was a British author and poet. Born in Bombay, in British India, he is best known for his works of fiction "[The Jungle Book][1]" (1894). He is regarded as a major "innovator in the art of the short story"; his children's books are enduring classics of children's literature. ([Source][2]) [1]: /works/OL15400121W/ [2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudyard_Kipling
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