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So the Elephant’s Child went home across Africa frisking and whisking his trunk. When he wanted fruit to eat he pulled fruit down from a tree, instead of waiting for it to fall as he used to do. When he wanted grass he plucked grass up from the ground, instead of going on his knees as he used to do.
Q 1. One fine morning in the middle of the Precession of the Equinoxes this ’satiable Elephant’s Child asked a new fine question that he had never asked before. He asked, “What does the Crocodile have for dinner?”
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First published in the Ladies’ Home Journal, April 1900, illustrated by Frank Verbeck. Collected in Just So Stories (1902), illustrated by the author, and followed by the poem “I keep six honest serving-men.” The drawing of the Elephant’s Child’s tug of war with the crocodile (above) was reproduced on the cover.
Originally the elephant had a short nose the size of a boot, flexible but useless for grasping things. One little elephant was insatiably inquisitive. He asked so many questions that all his relations spanked him. One day he asked: They all spanked him and told him to hush. Then he asked Kolokolo Bird, who told him to go the Limpopo River and find ...
The manuscript of the story is in the volume Just So Stories in the British Library. This was one of the plots for a Just So story suggested by Nelson Doubleday, the seven-year-old son of Kipling’s American publisher (see headnote to “How the Leopard got his Spots”). Roger Lancelyn Green [page 171] suggested that the oral version dated from 1898, w...
Of the illustrations, Francis Cecil Whitehouse wrote: J.M.S. Tompkins wrote: Rosalind Meyer argued that the story is partly autobiographical: [L.L.] ©Lisa Lewis 2005 All rights reserved
May 23, 2010 · But there was one Elephant—a new Elephant—an Elephant's Child—who was full of 'satiable curtiosity, and that means he asked ever so many questions. And he lived in Africa, and he filled all Africa with his 'satiable curtiosities.
So the Elephant's Child went home across Africa frisking and whisking his trunk. When he wanted fruit to eat he pulled fruit down from a tree, instead of waiting for it to fall as he used to do. When he wanted grass he plucked grass up from the ground, instead of going on his knees as he used to do.
The Elephant's Child. Rudyard Kipling. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1983 - Juvenile Fiction - 48 pages. Readers learn how elephants came to have long trunks in this classic fairy tale. “With...
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