[PDF] Kiplings Childrens Literature eBook

Author : Sue Walsh
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 44,35 MB
Release : 2016-04-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1317108973

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Despite Kipling's popularity as an author and his standing as a politically controversial figure, much of his work has remained relatively unexamined due to its characterization as 'children's literature'. Sue Walsh challenges the apparently clear division between 'children's' and 'adult' literature, and poses important questions about how these strict categories have influenced critical work on Kipling and on literature in general. For example, why are some of Kipling's books viewed as children's literature, and what critical assumptions does this label produce? Why is it that Kim is viewed by critics as transcending attempts at categorization? Using Kipling as a case study, Walsh discusses texts such as Kim, The Jungle Books, the Just-So Stories, Puck of Pook's Hill, and Rewards and Fairies, re-evaluating earlier critical approaches and offering fresh readings of these relatively neglected works. In the process, she suggests new directions for postcolonial and childhood studies and interrogates the way biographical criticism on children's literature in particular has tended to supersede and obstruct other kinds of readings.

Author : Rudyard Kipling
Publisher : ABDO
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 30,32 MB
Release : 2005-09
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781596793446

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Relates how the leopard got his spotted coat in order to hunt the animals in the dappled shadows of the forest.

Author : Howard J. Booth
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 22,81 MB
Release : 2011-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521199727

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An overview of Kipling's work, his career and postcolonial views on his often controversial position on imperialism.

Author : Rudyard Kipling
Publisher : Grosset & Dunlap
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 49,85 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780448343068

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Because of his "satiable curtiosity" about what the crocodile has for dinner, the elephant's child and all elephants thereafter have long trunks. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

Author : Rudyard Kipling
Publisher : Everyman's Library
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 15,43 MB
Release : 2013-10-23
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0307804453

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Beloved for his fanciful and engrossing children’s literature, controversial for his enthusiasm for British imperialism, Rudyard Kipling remains one of the most widely read writers of Victorian and modern English literature. In addition to writing more than two dozen works of fiction, including Kim and The Jungle Book, Kipling was a prolific poet, composing verse in every classical form from the epigram to the ode. Kipling’s most distinctive gift was for ballads and narrative poems in which he drew vivid characters in universal situations, articulating profound truths in plain language. Yet he was also a subtle, affecting anatomist of the human heart, and his deep feeling for the natural world was exquisitely expressed in his verse. He was shattered by World War I, in which he lost his only son, and his work darkened in later years but never lost its extraordinary vitality. All of these aspects of Kipling’s poetry are represented in this selection, which ranges from such well-known compositions as “Mandalay” and “If” to the less-familiar, emotionally powerful, and personal epigrams he wrote in response to the war.

Author : Rudyard Kipling
Publisher : Little Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 27,44 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Authors, English
ISBN : 9781904435808

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Displaying the same verve and wit as the Just So Stories, this charming collection brings together the series of letters Rudyard Kipling wrote to his children--his "dear people" as he called them--from 1906 to 1915. The correspondence with each child is eloquently presented--for Josephine, his daughter, who died at the age of six, the grief of whose loss almost stopped him from continuing with the stories; for his son John, who would become a young officer and be lost in the trenches of World War I, his father never forgiving himself afterwards for having pushed him into the service; and for his second daughter, Elsie, who would marry but had no children of her own. The letters are peppered with many impromptu pen and ink sketches, stories, and poems, as well as brilliantly graphic descriptions of travel in Europe, Egypt, and Canada.

Author : Rudyard Kipling
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 32,38 MB
Release : 2007-08-02
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780192720023

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A wonderful new edition of this favourite tale of the boy cub and his jungle friends

Author : Rudyard Kipling
Publisher :
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 15,25 MB
Release : 2021-05-27
Category :
ISBN : 9781913519568

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Originally published as part of Kipling's famous The Jungle Book, the story of Rikki Tikki Tavi, the little mongoose rescued by a family when he was half-drowned in a storm, has been an enduring favourite with young and old for more than half a century. Rikki, of course, grows to become a family pet and repays the kindness of his rescuers by defending them from the evil cobras that lurk in their garden. Like Kipling's other magical tales from India, Rikki Tikki Tavi has inspired Robert Ingpen to achieve some of his most amazing depictions of wildlife. Rikki and the other creatures are brought to life as never before although, as Robert says 'I have tried to tread as lightly as I can with my images and hope I have left enough space for the reader to continue to make the adventure that Kipling created during his time in India.' This new edition of Kipling's classic story includes many new illustrations by Robert Ingpen created especially for this book.

Author : Rudyard Kipling
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 45,40 MB
Release : 2017-09-02
Category :
ISBN : 9781976004483

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Just So Stories for Little Children A Classic of Children's Literature By Rudyard Kipling Just So Stories for Little Children is a 1902 collection of origin stories by the British author Rudyard Kipling. Considered a classic of children's literature, the book is among Kipling's best known works. The Just So Stories each tell how a particular animal was modified from an original form to its current form by the acts of man, or some magical being. For example, the Whale has a tiny throat because he swallowed a mariner, who tied a raft inside to block the whale from swallowing other men. The Camel has a hump given to him by a djinn as punishment for the camel's refusing to work (the hump allows the camel to work longer between times of eating). The Leopard's spots were painted by an Ethiopian (after the Ethiopian painted himself black). The Kangaroo gets its powerful hind legs, long tail, and hopping gait after being chased all day by a dingo, sent by a minor god responding to the Kangaroo's request to be made different from all other animals. The Just So Stories began as bedtime stories told to his daughter "Effie" [Josephine, Kipling's firstborn]; when the first three were published in a children's magazine, a year before her death, Kipling explained: "in the evening there were stories meant to put Effie to sleep, and you were not allowed to alter those by one single little word. They had to be told just so; or Effie would wake up and put back the missing sentence. So at last they came to be like charms, all three of them,--the whale tale, the camel tale, and the rhinoceros tale."