Screen LibraryNot so stories /
"Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories was one of the first true children's books in the English language, a timeless classic that continues to delight readers to this day. Beautiful, evocative and playful, the stories of How the Whale Got His Throat or How the First Letter Was Written pa...
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Rebellion Publishing Limited,
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| Publisher Address: | Oxford, UK : |
| Publication Dates: | 2018. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: |
"Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories was one of the first true children's books in the English language, a timeless classic that continues to delight readers to this day. Beautiful, evocative and playful, the stories of How the Whale Got His Throat or How the First Letter Was Written paint a world of magic and wonder. It's also deeply rooted in British colonialism. Kipling saw the Empire as a benign, civilising force, in a way that's troubling to modern readers. Not So Stories attempts to redress that balance, bringing together new and established writers of colour from around the world to tak |
| Item Description: | "Illustrated by Woodrow Phoenix."--Front cover. |
| Carrier Form: | 261 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| ISBN: |
9781781086124 (paperback) : 1781086125 (paperback) |
| CLC: | I14 |
| Call Number: | I14/N899 |
| Contents: |
How the spider got her legs / Queen / Best beloved / The man who played with the crab / Saṃsāra / Serpent, crocodile, tiger / How the tree of wishes gained its carapace of plastic / How the ants got their queen / How the snake lost its spine / The cat who walked by herself / Strays like us / How the simurgh won her tail / There is |