num_pages: 244
description: Hardcover like new and with a dust jacket that is good. Two closed tears on front and wear at top of spine, clear cover needed for such a beautiful book. By Rudyard Kipling, text, Safaya Salter did illustrations and front cover painting is signed. 1987 Henry Holt and Company, 96 pages
language: English
title: Just So Stories
titlecomplete: Just So Stories
characters: Wild Man, Kolokolo Bird, Wild Cow, All-the-Turtle-there-was, Wild Cat, The Most Beautiful Queen Balkis, Uncle Baboon, Bi-Colored-Python-Rock-Snake, Slow-Solid Tortoise, Stute fish, Stickly-Prickly Hedgehog, Wild Dog, Little girl-daughter, Pau Amma, Painted Jaguar, Kangaroo, Old Man Kangaroo, Tired Old Kangaroo, Wild Horse, Aunt Hippopotamus, Rhinoceros, Man, aka Son of Adam, Solomon the Son of David, aka The Most Wise Sovreign Suleiman-bin-Daoud, Nqong, Dingo—Yellow-Dog, Tired-Dog, Poor-Dog, Ethiopian, Uncle Giraffe, Mariner, Elephant's Child, Aunt Ostrich
genres: Fiction, Animals, Classics, British Literature, Young Adult, Childrens, India, Fantasy, Literature, Short Stories
ratings_count: 47717
series: Password Readers Leveled Stories
awards: awardedAt: -94665600000
name: Lewis Carroll Shelf Award
publisher: Longmeadow Press