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The Elephant’s Child
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| Author(s): | Rudyard Kipling |
| Illustrator(s): | Feodor Rojankovsky |
| Publisher(s): | Garden City Publishing Co. |
| Year Published: | 1942 |
| Type: | Hardcover |
| Genre: | Animal Fantasy Fables |
| Age Range: | Ages 5-7: Early Reader Books |
| Pages: | 26 |
| This is an | All-Time Great Children's Book (ATGCB) |
| OCLC: | 472962781 |
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Description
How an encounter with a crocodile gave the elephant’s child his enormous trunk.
Other Editions
Just So Stories (1930)
A collection of animal fables with a dust jacket by Dorothy P. Lathrop.
Read online at archive.org.
The Cat That Walked by Himself (1942)
How the cat made a bargain with the Woman, but still walks by himself.
The Elephant’s Child and Other Just-So Stories (1942)
An omnibus edition containing The Elephant’s Child, and How the Camel Got His Hump, and How the Leopard Got His Spots, and How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin.
Four Famous Just So Stories (1942)
A boxed set containing The Elephant’s Child, and How the Camel Got His Hump, and How the Leopard Got His Spots, and How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin.
How the Camel Got His Hump (1942)
At the beginning, the camel refused to work for the first three days, so the Djinn gave him a hump, and now he can work three days without resting.
Read online at archive.org.
How the Leopard Got His Spots (1942)
At the beginning of things, the leopard and the Ethiopian change their colors to camouflage.
Read online at archive.org.
How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin (1942)
After the rhinoceros eats the parsee’s cake, the latter gets even and the rhinoceros gets his wrinkled skin.
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