A wonderful medium for incomparable tales

A wonderful medium for incomparable tales

Just So Stories (Album)

Customer Review

The twelve "History like that" ("Just so stories") Kipling rocked my childhood. In these stories, sometimes short, the author speaks directly to his daughter ("Best Beloved" or "Best Beloved"); these texts are rich in comical and poetic repetitions, and all tell, through a preposterous story, how this or that animal won its particular physical.
I can not explain how these stories, especially some, could mark me as much; but in reading them today, I find the same charm and the same mischievous wisdom.

If you want to read the entirety of "Just So Stories", I recommend this edition: Stories like that, that presents in their entirety, in translations carefully selected (a point of great difficulty!) And accompanied by original drawings - generously annotated - of the author.

This beautiful album of Milan youth only offers a selection of "Just So Stories", "The Elephant Child", "How the Camel got his hump", "How the rhinoceros got his skin", "How the whale had his throat "and" How the leopard got its tasks. "
(Missing and "Lament of the small Kangaroo", "The beginning of the Armadillos," "The First Letter", "How was the Alphabet," "The Cat who walks by himself", " The Butterfly that stamped "," The Crab that played with the sea ").

However this edition also presents a short text "Mowgli" and especially the extraordinary poem, sober and moving: You'll be a man my son, followed by "Letters to my son," I advise you (re) reading .. .

So much for the content. And now for the form: This book is absolutely, completely and irretrievably splendid!
This is a great album (26 of 32 cm), of impeccable quality. The cover is very stiff, matt finish, the colors are very bright. The pages of the books, in a nice paper cut (type Canson "grain") are very rich in illustrations, full of charm, color and poetry. The quality of graphics, colors and rendering is really dazzling.

This book is a great gift idea, from the tenderest age, both for its shape - nice and pleasant to use - than for its content, entertaining and thought-provoking (I brainstormed about these extraordinary stories, child!).

Some commentators deplore the outdated style of the text of these tales. This is not quite the case in my opinion, but it is true that the style is still very special, very personal. I believe these tales were really intended to be read aloud (Kipling speaks, from beginning to end, his little girl of eight, and tenderness flush with each sentence) and I highly recommend as well a adult (or a "large") to make the reading aloud ... not hesitate to put to the tone that is a must!

good enough Rank: 3/5
March 26
Good quality 31 Rank: 5/5
April 10
For the price super 7 Rank: 5/5
April 21
Belkin Router Rank: 5/5
February 6

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