John Brunner, Author, Rudyard Kipling, Author Tor Books $17.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-312-85354-9
Every bit as entertaining and instructive as Kipling's Science Fiction, also edited by Brunner (Fiction Forecasts, Sept. 28), this volume presents an impressive selection of genre fiction from a master storyteller. Its entries range from such fables
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Rudyard Kipling, Author, John Brunner, Editor Tor Books $17.95 (178p) ISBN 978-0-312-85355-6
Genre aficionados are fond of finding literary antecedents in unlikely places, and science fiction devotees' latest rediscovery is the Nobel laureate Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936). Hugo and Nebula winner Brunner's ( Maze of Stars ) view of Kipling as...
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Rudyard Kipling, Author, Christopher Corr, Illustrator, Cathie Felstead, Illustrator Candlewick Press (MA) $22.99 (127p) ISBN 978-0-7636-2629-7
Well-known animal tales get a fresh look from eight contemporary artists in A Collection of Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories. Peter Sis, Satoshi Kitamura and Jane Ray number among the artists, illustrating ""How the Whale Got His Throat,"" ""How...
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Rudyard Kipling, illus. by Ian Wallace. Groundwood (PGW, dist.), $19.95 (64p) ISBN 978-1-55498-212-7
In the first of two planned volumes, Wallace uses a mix of watercolor, crayon, pastel, and chalk to honor the wild invention and wilder language of Kipling’s classic tales of anthropomorphic animals, adventure, and absurdity. Six stories appear—inclu
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Rudyard Kipling, Author, David Frampton, Illustrator HarperCollins Publishers $19.95 (122p) ISBN 978-0-06-023294-8
The graceful prose and pungent humor of these 12 tall tales (which include such favorites as ``How the Camel Got His Hump'' and ``The Elephant's Child'') place them in the same league with such children's classics as Winnie the Pooh and Alice in...
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Rudyard Kipling, Author, Robert Andrew Parker, Illustrator Gulliver Books $12.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-15-200456-9
Parker's paintings elegantly interpret the British Cockney soldier's eulogy to Gunga Din. The selection from Kipling's Barrack-Room Ballads is illustrated with views of India in the late 19th centuryvivid pictures of disciplined troops with banners...
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Rudyard Kipling, Author, Martin Jarvis, Read by , read by Martin Jarvis. CSA Word $26.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-934-99749-9
Set principally in Shimla, the mountain town and summer capital of the Raj, Kipling's 40 short stories on the manners and mores of British settlers in India are well observed and masterful character studies. Martin Jarvis begins beautifully;...
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Rudyard Kipling, Author, Tim Peck, Editor, Lambert Davis, Illustrator Harcourt Children's Books $18 (44p) ISBN 978-0-15-267015-3
With this newly illustrated edition of the treasured classic--written in the 1890s as part of the Jungle Books --readers can once again be captivated by the tale of a mongoose who is taken in by a family of British colonials living in India....
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Rudyard Kipling, Author, Jerry Pinkney, Author, Jerry Pinkney, Illustrator HarperCollins $17.99 (48p) ISBN 978-0-688-14320-6
Pinkney (The Jungle Book: The Mowgli Stories) applies his considerable talents to the smooth retelling and lush illustration of one of Kipling's best-loved animal tales. An English family living in India can hardly foresee their good fortune when a...
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Rudyard Kipling, Author, L. Zwerger, Author, R. Kipling, Author NorthSouth $16.5 (24p) ISBN 978-0-7358-1483-7
Lisbeth Zwerger breathes new life into a tale from Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories, How the Camel Got His Hump. With scenes framed in a white border, Zwerger's earth-toned paintings convey the dryness of the desert in which the story takes...
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Rudyard Kipling, illus. by Giovanni Manna. Creative Editions, $17.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-56846-259-2
Kipling's inspirational poem—the one that begins, "If you can keep your head when all about you/ Are losing theirs"—describes how to preserve one's honor by the principled avoidance of political and moral pitfalls. Italian artist Manna imagines the "
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Rudyard Kipling, Author, Boris Karloff, Performed by, Anthony Quayle, Read by Harper Children's Audio $24 (0p) ISBN 978-0-694-52476-1
HarperChildren's Audio continues its re-release rollout of classic backlist titles with Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories and Other Tales performed by the late British actor Boris Karloff. Just So stories include ""How the Leopard Got His Spots""
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Rudyard Kipling, Author, Emily Bolam, Author, Emily Bolam, Illustrator Dutton Books $13.95 (240p) ISBN 978-0-525-44862-4
Curiosity stops just short of being deadly in this adaptation of the Kipling classic. ``In the High and Far-Off Times'' when elephants sported short, ``bulgy'' noses, a young pachyderm full of ``satiable curiosity'' sets off to discover what...
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Rudyard Kipling, Author, Jerry Pinkney, Illustrator , illus. by Jerry Pinkney. HarperTrophy $6.99 (48p) ISBN 978-0-06-058785-7
In a starred review, PW
praised Pinkney's smooth retelling and lush illustration of one of Kipling's best-loved animal tales: "Full-bodied watercolors showcase visually thrilling confrontations [while] portraits are warm without being...
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Sarah Powell, illus. by Federica Frenna. Sizzle, $9.99 (48p) ISBN 978-1-4998-0685-4
Adapted by Powell from Kipling’s The Jungle Book and The Second Jungle Book, this interactive entry in the Seek and Find Classics series invites readers to take part in the unfolding story. In more than a dozen seek-and-find scenes keyed to...
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