Help your child share your most wonderful childhood memories and emotions with the Illustrated Children's Classics Collection series, which offers amazingly illustrated children's favorites – the short stories for kids by Rudyard Kipling. Get cozily on the sofa, and together with your child enter the magic world of childhood – the world of exciting characters and thrilling adventures, the world of hot African deserts and savannahs, and the world of mysterious jungles of India. Get your kid engaged, entertained, and at the same time – taught valuable life lessons. Relish the splendor of the vivid and colorful pictures by a famous children's artist, which will trigger the child's imagination and let them live through the book adventures together with their favorite characters. •The Cat that Walked by Himself •The Sing-Song of Old Man Kangaroo •How the First Letter was Written •How the Alphabet was Made •The Crab that Played with the Sea •How the Leopard Got His Spots •The Butterfly that StampedJoseph Rudyard Kipling (/ˈrʌdjərd/ RUD-yərd; 30 December 1865 – 18 January 1936)[1] was an English journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist. He was born in British India, which inspired much of his work. Kipling's works of fiction include The Jungle Book (1894), Kim (1901), the Just So Stories (1902) and many short stories, including "The Man Who Would Be King" (1888). His poems include "Mandalay" (1890), "Gunga Din" (1890), "The Gods of the Copybook Headings" (1919), "The White Man's Burden: The United States and the Philippine Islands" (1899), and "If—" (1910). He is seen as an innovator in the art of the short story. His children's books are classics; one critic noted "a versatile and luminous narrative gift." Kipling in the late 19th and early 20th centuries was among the United Kingdom's most popular writers. Henry James said "Kipling strikes me personally as the most complete man of genius, as distinct from fine intelligence, that I have ever known." In 1907, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, as the first English-language writer to receive the prize, and at 41, its youngest recipient to date. He was also sounded out for the British Poet Laureateship and several times for a knighthood, but declined both. Following his death in 1936, his ashes were interred at Poets' Corner, part of the South Transept of Westminster Abbey.
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