Very large squarish childrens book, glossy colorillustrated boards showing crocodile pulling on baby elephants trunk with large snake coiled around its legs, green background, colorillustration of snake and elephant at water on back, beautiful jungle foliage illustrated inside covers and adjacent end papers, blue felttip pen note on title page to child. Inspire lifelong reading with ageappropriate books every month. They taught me all i knew their names are what and where and when and how and why and who. The elephant s child just so stories rudyard kipling. Then the elephants child sat down most hard and sudden. Rudyard kipling 18651936 was one of the most popular writers in the united kingdom in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. At the end of the third day a fly came and stung him on. The jungle book introduces mowgli, the boy foundling adopted by a family of wolves, shere khan the tiger, bagheera the black panther and baloo the sleepy brown bear. The elephants child by rudyard kipling rainy day poems. Geoffrey patterson began his career in interior design and worked as a set designer with the bbc for years.
See more ideas about if rudyard kipling, rudyard kipling jungle book and illustration. I absolutely adore rudyard kipling, and the elephants child is one of my all time favorite childrens books. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read the jungle books illustrated. In just so stories kipling wittily supplies the answers to these and other questions.
Childs play library by kipling, rudyard paperback book. Best baby shower books to gift for storytime snuggles. But it never grew any shorter, and, besides, it made him squint. Just so stories by rudyard kipling the elephant s child additional information year published. Max is the hero of this beloved childrens classic in which he makes mischief, sails away, tames the wild things, and returns home for supper.
Three of the stories feature the adventures of an abandoned man cub, a boy named mowgli, who is raised by wolves in the jungle. Just so stories for little children is a 1902 collection of origin stories by the british author rudyard kipling. Designed by minalima, interact with your favorite man. The elephants child by rudyard kipling the elephants child in the high and faroff times the elephant, o best beloved, had no trunk. He is regarded as a major innovator in the art of the short story. Find the elephants child 0152253866 by kipling, rudyard. He received the nobel prize for literature in 1907.
The tale of how the elephant got its trunk is one of the most beloved of the just so stories rudyard kipling wrote for children. Rudyard kipling books, ebooks, audiobooks, biography. Kipling s works of fiction include the classic just so stories and the jungle book. The elephant s child sat there for three days waiting for his nose to shrink. Rudyard kipling is one of the bestknown of the late victorian poets and storytellers. Rudyard kipling18651936 was a nobel prizewinning english writer who today is best known for his wonderful childrens stories, which have become enduring classics of childrens literature. The elephants child dramatized audiobook by rudyard. Kiplings stories for children by rudyard kipling abebooks. Considered a classic of childrens literature, the book is among kiplings best. The jungle book full audiobook by rudyard kipling youtube.
This is an adaptation of a famous rudyard kipling story, which explains how the elephant got its trunk. Rudyard kipling books list of books by author rudyard. The elephants child poem, a poem by rudyard kipling. He shall live to run with the pack and to hunt with the pack. The insatiably curious elephants child peppers every animal he meets with questions about the mysterious crocodile who lives on the banks of the lompopo river. Org pointed out that the elephant in the drawings is an indian not an african one. The elephants child kipling, rudyard, patterson, geoffrey on. Gerald the elephant learns a truth familiar to every preschoolerheck, every human. Rare 1942 rudyard kipling the elephants child just so. It is believed that the loss of two children is the reason why kipling never wrote another childrens book after this. The elephants childhow the elephant got his trunk how the elephants trunk became long. The jungle book read by meredith hughes this classic childrens book by rudyard kipling tells the story of mowgli, a young boy raised by wolves. Never has there been a more satisfying rendering of kiplings most beloved just so story, wh.
Considered a classic of childrens literature, the book is among kiplings best known works kipling began working on the book by telling the first three chapters as bedtime stories to. Although he was awarded the nobel prize for literature in 1907, his political views, which grew more toxic as he aged, have long made him critically unpopular. Kipling was familiar with indian elephants, about which he wrote several stories e. The elephants child illustrated by rudyard kipling. Buy the elephants child by rudyard kipling online at alibris. The story is cute, a classic fable of how the elephant got his trunk. The pages alternate between color illustrations and black and white ones, but all of them are fantastic, and really enhance kipling s story. Jonas laustroer studied at the hamburg university of applied sciences, with a focus on illustration, and now lectures in 3d animation.
O best beloved, the elephants child was full of curiosity. Cauley in this edition of rudyard kiplings the elephants child are just beautiful. I have up for sale vintage childrens book, the elephants child, by rudyard kipling. Kipling went to france to try to locate his son but returned unsuccessful. In 1907, at the age of 42, he was awarded the nobel prize in literature. The jungle book free full audiobook online listen by rudyard kipling author rudyard kipling country united kingdom language english series the jungle books genre childrens book publication date.
In the new yorker, charles mcgrath remarked kipling has been variously labelled a colonialist, a jingoist, a racist, an antisemite, a misogynist. Originally the elephant had a short nose the size of a boot, flexible but useless for grasping things. For, o best beloved, you will see and understand that the crocodile had pulled it out into a really truly trunk same as all elephants have today. Puck of pooks hill relates how dan and unas magical meeting with puck. Tragedy struck the kipling family again as rudyard kiplings son john was lost in the fight during a battle in france. The elephants child illustrated by rudyard kipling, paperback. Rudyard kiplings delightful story telling how the elephant got his trunk is given a stunning new interpretation by a top artist. When he finally meets the crocodile, he nearly becomes dinner. The elephants child kipling, rudyard, laustroer, jonas on. Rudyard kipling was an english journalist, shortstory writer, poet, and novelist. Kipling stories every child should know by kipling, rudyard edited by mary e. Geoffrey patterson has abridged the original text for a younger audience without losing any of kiplings muchloved turns of phrase. Rudyard kipling 18651936 was a nobel prizewinning english writer who today is best known for his wonderful children s stories, which have become enduring classics of children s literature. The still illustrations, executed in deep, heavy colors, follow the story very loosely.
Explore our editors picks for the best kids books of the month. Rudyard kiplings story of how the elephant got its trunk has always delighted children with its playful use of language and sense of high adventure. Lisbeth zwerger breathes new life into a tale from rudyard kiplings just so stories, how the camel got his hump. Kiplings jungle book is seen by some as an allegory for white colonialism in india. Gerald pumps piggie for information its big, its pretty, and they can share it, but piggie holds fast on this basic.
One of kiplings best beloved from his just so stories various editions, which explains how the elephant got his trunk, with somewhat enigmatic acrylic illustrations. He had only a blackish, bulgy nose, as big as a boot, that he could wriggle about from side to side. Kipling wrote some of the best animal stories for children, including his jungle books and just so stories. The elephants child just so stories rudyard kipling. One of the most famous childrens stories of all time, the jungle book tells of the mancub mowgli, who flees the cowardly, lame tiger shere khan and is rescued by the seeonee wolf pack and raised with them. Details about rare 1942 rudyard kipling the elephants child just so series f. Just so stories by rudyard kipling the elephants child additional information year published. The complete childrens short stories rudyard kipling. Among the best loved of all childrens classics, rudyard kiplings the jungle book is set among a community of animals in the jungles of india, where kipling was born and grew up. Moti guj, mutineer lifes handicap, my lord the elephant many inventions and toomai of the elephants the jungle book. Rudyard kipling, english shortstory writer, poet, and novelist chiefly remembered for his celebration of british imperialism, his tales and poems of british soldiers in india, and his tales for children. With scenes framed in a white border, zwergers earthtoned paintings convey the dr. The elephants child by rudyard kipling kids book club. This collection of childrens literature is a part of the educational technology clearinghouse and is funded by various grants.
Chapin and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at. His fiction works include the jungle book a classic of childrens literature and the rousing adventure novel kim, as well as books of poems, short stories, and essays. See all books authored by rudyard kipling, including just so stories for little children, and the jungle book, and more on. When piggie cartwheels up to gerald announcing that she has a surprise for him, gerald is less than pleased to learn that the surprise is a surprise. A favorite from rudyard kiplings just so stories 1902. The elephants child by rudyard kipling, 9781727855142.
The elephants child by rudyard kipling 1983, hardcover. The elephants child and other tales rudyard kipling e. Take a journey to the heart of the indian jungle with a reimagined edition of rudyard kiplings classic childrens story the jungle book. Often, they are representations of almost abstract shapes.