Just So Stories for Little Children

Par : Rudyard Kipling
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  • Nombre de pages300
  • PrésentationBroché
  • FormatGrand Format
  • Poids0.22 kg
  • Dimensions13,0 cm × 19,8 cm × 1,7 cm
  • ISBN978-0-19-953860-7
  • EAN9780199538607
  • Date de parution01/01/2009
  • CollectionOxford World's Classics
  • ÉditeurOxford University Press
  • Commentateur (texte)Lisa Lewis

Résumé

I keep six honest serving-men (They taught me all I knew); Their names are What and Why and When And How and Where and Who. 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 traditions he later collected all over the world.
He plays 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, 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.
I keep six honest serving-men (They taught me all I knew); Their names are What and Why and When And How and Where and Who. 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 traditions he later collected all over the world.
He plays 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, 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.
Rudyard Kipling
Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) est l'un des auteurs anglais les plus populaires surtout connu en France pour Le Livre de la jungle, Histoires comme ça, Kim et Stalky and Cie. Né à Bombay, Kipling a travaillé en Inde comme journaliste et a fait de nombreux voyages (Singapour, Hong Kong, le Japon, les Etats-Unis, l'Afrique du Sud, la Nouvelle-Zélande et l'Australie), avant de s'installer aux Etats-Unis, dans le Vermont, où il a écrit plusieurs de ses livres. En 1896, il s'est fixé avec sa famille en Angleterre et a reçu le prix Nobel en 1907. Il est mort en 1936 à l'âge de 70 ans.
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