Just So Stories

Книга рассказов Р. Киплинга для чтения на английском языке с англо-польским словарём

Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling are a firm family favourite • The delightful tales of whales and cats and kangaroos and crabs - everything from how the camel got in a humph (and got his hump!) to how the alphabet was invented. Enchanting and funny, these fantastical stories continue to delight each and every generation • With an inspiring introduction by Jonathan Stroud, author of the 'Bartimaeus' trilogy, and including fun-filled endnotes

This beautiful HarperCollins Children’s Classics edition of Rudyard Kipling’s Just So Stories is the perfect addition to any bookshelf • Inspired by the bedtime stories Rudyard Kipling told his daughter that had to be recited ‘just so’, this collection includes mythical animal origin stories like ‘How the Camel got his Hump’ and ‘How the Rhinoceros got his Skin’, alongside other playful inventions, such as the reason for the ebb and flow of the tides and how the alphabet was invented • These rhythmically told, traditional stories appeal to the curious imagination of children, and are some of Rudyard Kipling’s best-known works alongside The Jungle Book

Rudyard Kipling told his children gloriously fanciful tales of how things in the world came to be as they are. He wrote them down for publication as Just So Stories in 1902, just three years after the tragic death of his daughter Josephine for whom they had first been created • During the twentieth century, generations of children were tucked into bed with readings of highly imaginative and wildly improbable explanations such as how the elephant got his trunk, how the leopard got his spots, and how the alphabet was made. Kipling's children's books were popular for much of the 20th century and Just So Stories remains a children's favourite across the English-speaking world

A relentlessly inventive collection of myths that betray a deep love and respect for the natural world, the Penguin Classics edition of Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories is edited with an introduction by Judith Plotz and a general preface by series editor Jan Montefiore • In these bewitching stories we learn 'How the Camel got his Hump', ' How the Leopard got his Spots' and 'How the Whale got his Throat', as Rudyard Kipling conjures up distant lands, beautiful gardens of splendid palaces, the sea, the deserts, the jungle and all its creatures. Inspired by Kipling's delight in human eccentricities and the animal world, and based on bedtime stories he told to his daughter, these strikingly imaginative fables explore the myths of creation, the nature of beasts and the origins of language and writing

Originally told by Rudyard Kipling to his children at bedtime, this compendium of witty tales imagines how animals came to be as they are now. Discover how the massive whale got a tiny throat by swallowing a mariner, how the lazy camel got a hump so that he had no excuse not to work, and why the leopard's spots were painted on • Kipling's imagination runs wild as he creates charming origin stories that still enchant and delight children to this day. This edition features Kipling's iconic original illustrations

'They sing in my head even now... What a wonderful storyteller/poet he was' Michael Morpurgo, Guardian • Have you ever wondered how the leopard got his spots? Or how the camel got his hump? Rudyard Kipling's witty and beautifully written stories explain these secrets and many more and introduce such memorable characters as the Elephant's Child, the Cat that Walked by Himself and the Butterfly that Stamped

Эти остроумные истории первоначально были рассказаны Редьярдом Киплингом своим собственным детям. В них он дает причудливые объяснения того, как и почему все стало таким, какое оно есть • Поколения детей с удовольствием узнавали, как леопард получил свои пятна, как Слоненок на берегах великой серо-зеленой реки Лимпопо приобрел свой хобот с помощью крокодила и как появились броненосцы • Прекрасно проиллюстрированные автором в черно-белом варианте, эти восхитительные сказки заворожат читателя и слушателя • Книга на английском языке • These witty stories were originally told by Rudyard Kipling to his own children. In them he gives fanciful accounts of how and why things came to be as they are • Generations of children have delighted to learn how the Leopard got his spots, how the Elephant's Child on the banks of the great grey-green Limpopo acquired his trunk with the help of the Crocodile, and the beginning of the Armadillos

Книга представляет собой неадаптированный текст для чтения. Для учащихся 5-8 классов языковых школ, курсов иностранных языков. Книга снабжена заданиями на понимание текста и словарем

Книга знакомит читателя с творчеством известного английского писателя Джозефа Редьярда Киплинга (1865-1936). Путешествуя по разным странам, в 1899 году он провел несколько месяцев в Южной Африке, где собрал материал для новой детской книги, которая вышла в свет в 1902 году под названием «Маленькие сказки». Дети всего мира зачитываются его рассказами про любопытного слонёнка, про кошку, которая гуляла сама по себе, о том, как леопард стал пятнистым, как было написано первое письмо и др. Текст сказок адаптирован с учетом уровня владения языком учащихся 5-6 классов школ, гимназий, лицеев. Книга снабжена комментарием и упражнениями, направленными на проверку понимания текста, отработку лексики, грамматических структур, а также развитие навыков устной речи

В этой богато иллюстрированной подборке познакомьтесь с котом, который гулял сам по себе, узнайте, как у ленивого верблюда появился горб, как у слона появился длинный хобот, узнайте, почему у носорога такая морщинистая кожа и откуда у кита такое крошечное горло. Эти хорошо известные, богато выдуманные истории рассказывают о том, как мир стал таким, какой он есть • Рассказы Редьярда Киплинга "Просто так" - одна из непреходящих классик детской литературы, и эти остроумные, изобретательные истории восхищали поколения детей. Рассказы Редьярда Киплинга "Просто так", сочетающие в себе блестящий талант рифмоплета Элли Вуллард и прекрасные иллюстрации отмеченной наградами Марты Альтес, представляют собой очаровательный пересказ горячо любимой классики для нового поколения

'I still remember arriving in the city for the first time... It wasn't easy... But here, London, is my home.' • Yumiko is a young Japanese woman who has made London her home. She has a job, a boyfriend; Japan seems far away. Then, out of the blue, her brother calls to tell her that her father has died in a mountaineering accident • Yumiko returns to Tokyo for the funeral and finds herself immersed in the rituals of Japanese life and death – and confronting a decision she hadn’t expected to have to make • Just So Happens is a graphic novel by a young artist and storyteller of rare talent. Fumio Obata’s drawing, in particular, is marvellous in its power and delicacy