Just So Stories

Title: Just So Stories

Author: Rudyard Kipling

Rating: ★★★★★

Age Category: Children's Literature

    Back Cover Synopsis: 

    How did the camel get his hump? How did the leopard get his spots? How did the elephant get his trunk?

    These are questions that children around the world have asked for centuries, but it took Nobel Prize winner Rudyard Kipling's lively, hilarious stories to give them the answers. For one hundred years, these classic tales - drawn from the oral storytelling traditions of India and Africa and filled with mischievously clever animals and people - have entertained young and old alike. 

    Intertwined within these delightful tales are little pearls of wisdom about the pitfalls of arrogance and pride and the importance of curiosity, imagination, and inventiveness. Kipling's rhythm prose makes these tales perfect for sharing aloud with the whole family. 

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Sonnet 43 by William Shakespeare

Sonnet 43

by William Shakespeare

When most I wink, then do mine eyes best see,
For all the day they view things unrespected;
But when I sleep, in dreams they look on thee,
And darkly bright are bright in dark directed.
Then thou, whose shadow shadows doth make bright,
How would thy shadow's form form happy show
To the clear day with thy much clearer light,
When to unseeing eyes thy shade shines so!
How would, I say, mine eyes be blessed made
By looking on thee in the living day,
When in dead night thy fair imperfect shade
Through heavy sleep on sightless eyes doth stay!
All days are nights to see till I see thee,
And nights bright days when dreams do show thee me.

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