Just So Stories: Puffin Classics

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Pășim într-un univers al curiozității pure, unde explicațiile științifice lasă loc magiei și umorului blând. Just So Stories nu este doar o culegere de basme, ci o invitație la a vedea lumea prin ochii unui copil pentru care fiecare detaliu al naturii — cocoșa cămilei, petele leopardului sau trompa elefantului — ascunde o aventură fantastică. Atmosfera este una de intimitate caldă, reflectând originea acestor texte ca povești de noapte bună spuse de Rudyard Kipling fiicei sale. Găsim aici o limbă engleză jucăușă, plină de onomatopee și repetiții ritmice, care transformă lectura cu voce tare într-o experiență aproape muzicală. Observăm cum autorul își folosește experiența din India și pasiunea pentru folclorul universal pentru a crea mituri moderne. Dacă în The Jungle Book natura era adesea aspră și guvernată de „Legea Junglei”, în Just So Stories ea devine un teren de joacă ingenios. Cititorul care a apreciat explorarea identității și a peisajului exotic din Kim va găsi aici aceeași fascinație pentru diversitatea lumii, dar transpusă într-un registru ludic și accesibil. Structura volumului urmărește o progresie de la transformări fizice ale animalelor către invenții umane fundamentale, precum scrisul și alfabetul, oferind o cosmogonie miniaturală pentru cei mici. Este o operă care confirmă geniul narativ al lui Rudyard Kipling, capabil să transforme întrebările simple în literatură perenă.

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ISBN-13: 9780241734322
ISBN-10: 0241734320
Pagini: 224
Ilustrații: b & w line
Dimensiuni: 127 x 196 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.16 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
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Recomandăm această ediție din colecția Collins Classics oricărui părinte care dorește să cultive imaginația copiilor prin texte clasice, dar și adulților care apreciază rafinamentul stilistic al unui laureat Nobel. Cititorul câștigă o poartă spre o epocă în care poveștile explicau lumea cu umor și blândețe, fiind lectura ideală pentru momentele de liniște de dinaintea somnului.

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Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936) a fost un poet, nuvelist și romancier britanic, născut în Bombay, India. Această moștenire culturală duală i-a marcat profund opera, oferindu-i o perspectivă unică asupra interacțiunii dintre Orient și Occident. Recunoscut ca unul dintre cei mai mari inovatori ai nuvelei, el a devenit, în 1907, cel mai tânăr laureat al Premiului Nobel pentru Literatură. Deși opera sa a stârnit controverse politice de-a lungul timpului, geniul său narativ și capacitatea de a crea universuri memorabile pentru copii, precum cel din The Jungle Book, îi asigură un loc permanent în canonul literaturii universale.

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The Just So Stories for Little Children are a collection written by the British author Rudyard Kipling. Highly fantasised origin stories, especially for differences among animals, they are among Kipling's best known works. The stories, first published in 1902, are origin stories, fantastic accounts of how various phenomena came about. A forerunner of these stories is Kipling's "How Fear Came," included in his The Second Jungle Book (1895). In it, Mowgli hears the story of how the tiger got his stripes. The Just So Stories typically have the theme of a particular animal being modified from an original form to its current form by the acts of man, or some magical being. For example, the Whale has a tiny throat because he swallowed a mariner, who tied a raft inside to block the whale from swallowing other men. The Camel has a hump given to him by a djinn as punishment for the camel's refusing to work (the hump allows the camel to work longer between times of eating). The Leopard's spots were painted by an Ethiopian (after the Ethiopian painted himself black). The Kangaroo gets its powerful hind legs, long tail, and hopping gait after being chased all day by a dingo, sent by a minor god responding to the Kangaroo's request to be made different from all other animals. Joseph Rudyard Kipling (30 December 1865 - 18 January 1936 was an English short-story writer, poet, and novelist. He wrote tales and poems of British soldiers in India and stories for children. He was born in Bombay, in the Bombay Presidency of British India, and was taken by his family to England when he was five years old. Kipling's works of fiction include The Jungle Book (a collection of stories which includes "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi"), the Just So Stories (1902), Kim (1901), and many short stories, including "The Man Who Would Be King" (1888). His poems include "Mandalay" (1890), "Gunga Din" (1890), "The Gods of the Copybook Headings" (1919), "The White Man's Burden" (1899), and "If-" (1910). 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; and one critic described his work as exhibiting "a versatile and luminous narrative gift." Kipling was one of the most popular writers in England, in both prose and verse, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Henry James said: "Kipling strikes me personally as the most complete man of genius (as distinct from fine intelligence) that I have ever known." In 1907, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, making him the first English-language writer to receive the prize, and its youngest recipient to date. Among other honours, he was sounded out for the British Poet Laureateship and on several occasions for a knighthood, all of which he declined. Kipling's subsequent reputation has changed according to the political and social climate of the age and the resulting contrasting views about him continued for much of the 20th century. George Orwell called him a "prophet of British imperialism." Literary critic Douglas Kerr wrote: "He Kipling] is still an author who can inspire passionate disagreement and his place in literary and cultural history is far from settled. But as the age of the European empires recedes, he is recognised as an incomparable, if controversial, interpreter of how empire was experienced. That, and an increasing recognition of his extraordinary narrative gifts, make him a force to be reckoned with.

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Rudyard Kipling was born in Bombay, India to British parents on December 30, 1865. In 1871, Rudyard and his sister, Trix, aged three, were left to be cared for by a couple in Southsea, England. Five years passed before he saw his parents again. His sense of desertion and despair were later expressed in his story “Baa Baa, Black Sheep” (1888), in his novel The Light that failed (1890), and his autobiography, Something of Myself (1937). As late as 1935 Kipling still spoke bitterly of the “House of Desolation” at Southsea: “I should like to burn it down and plough the place with salt.”At twelve he entered a minor public school, the United Services College at Westward Ho, North Devon. In Stalky and CO. (1899) the myopic Beetle is a self-caricature, and the days at Westward Ho are recalled with mixed feelings. At sixteen, eccentric and literary, Kipling sailed to India to become a journalist. His Indian experiences led to seven volumes of stories, including Soldiers Three (1888) and Wee Willie Winkie (1888).At twenty-four he returned to England and quickly tuned into a literary celebrity. In London he became close friends with an American, (Charles) Wolcott Balestier, with whom he collaborated on what critics called a “dime store novel.” Wolcott died suddenly in 1891, and a few weeks later Kipling married Wolcott’s sister, Caroline. The newlyweds settled in Brattleboro, Vermont, where Kipling wrote The Jungle Book (1895), and most of Captains Courageous (1897). By this time Kipling’s popularity and financial success were enormous.In 1899 the Kipling’s settled in Sussex, England, where he wrote some of his best books: Kim (1901), Just So Stories (1902), and Puck of Pooks Hill (1906). In 1907 he received the Nobel Prize for literature. By the time he died, on January 18 1936, critical opinion was deeply divided about his writings, but his books continued to be read by thousands, and such unforgettable poems and stories as “Gunga Din,” “If,” “The Man Who Would Be King,” and “Rikki-Tikki-Tavi” have lived on in the consciousness of succeeding generations.

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Originally told by Rudyard Kipling to his children at bedtime, this compendium of witty tales imagines how animals came to be as they are now. Discover how the massive whale got a tiny throat by swallowing a mariner, how the lazy camel got a hump so that he had no excuse not to work, and why the leopard's spots were painted on.
Kipling's imagination runs wild as he creates charming origin stories that still enchant and delight children to this day. This edition features Kipling's iconic original illustrations.

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Kipling has an Aesopian understanding of animals, of our dealings with them and our curious interrelatedness, interdependence, how we can learn about our own strange behaviour.

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How did the camel get his hump? Why won't cats do as they are told? Who invented reading and writing? How did an inquisitive little elephant change the lives of elephants everywhere? Kipling's imagined answers to such questions draw on the beast fables he heard as a child in India, as well as on folk games with language, exploring the relationships between thought, speech, and the written word. He also celebrates his own joy in fatherhood. The tales were told to his own and his friends' children over many years before he wrote them down, adding poems and his own illustrations. They invite older and younger readers to share a magical experience, each contributing to the other's pleasure, but each can also enjoy them alone, as more jokes, subtexts, and exotic references emerge with every reading. This fully illustrated edition includes two extra stories and Kipling's own explanation of the title.

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How the Whale Got His Throat
How the Camel Got His Hump
How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin
How the Leopard Got His Spots
The Elephant's Child/How the Elephant got his Trunk
The Sing-Song of Old Man Kangaroo
The Beginning of the Armadillos
How the First Letter Was Written
How the Alphabet Was Made
The Crab That Played with the Sea
The Cat That Walked by Himself
The Butterfly That Stamped

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