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Summary. At one time the Elephant did not have a trunk. Instead he has "a blackish, bulgy nose, as big as a boot." The Elephant's Child is curious and always asks questions "about everything that he saw, or heard, or felt, or smelt, or touched." One day the Elephant's Child decides to ask the Crocodile a question.
Language: English. Country of Origin: England. Source: Kipling, Rudyard. Just So Stories. Readability: Flesch–Kincaid Level: 8.6. Word Count: 2,700. Genre: Fantasy. Keywords: being different, learning.
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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
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. He asked his tall aunt, the Ostrich, why her tail-feathers grew just so, and his tall aunt the Ostrich ...
Just So Stories. 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. Kipling began working on the book by telling the first three chapters as bedtime stories to his daughter Josephine.
- Rudyard Kipling
- 1902
- 1902
- Children's book
The Elephant's Child is a fable about how the elephant got its long trunk. The story starts of with a curios elephant child who was full of curiosity and always got in trouble because of always asking questions. He wanted to know what the crocodile had for dinner so he left, where he meets creatures along the way.
a slow westward motion of the equinoctial points along the ecliptic, caused by the greater attraction of the sun and moon on the excess of matter at the equator, such that the times at which the sun crosses the equator come at shorter intervals than they would otherwise do. Kipling seems to use the expression here for its sound rather than its ...
