Try this next one from “The Sing-Song of Old Man Kangaroo”: Sentences such as this demand that a tongue speak with authority and presence. “Then Kolokolo Bird said, with a mournful cry, ‘Go to the banks of the great grey-green, greasy Limpopo River, all set about with fever-trees, and find out’.” Listen to this line from “The Elephant’s Child” as your example: those were important to me as a kid.įor me, it was all about the language. Now I can take or leave The Jungle Book, but The Just So Stories. The heart and soul of colonialism in India, he also happened to be a darn good writer. Kipling is a difficult fellow to get a grasp on. I was in the library the other day with an editor friend I know and we started discussing The Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling.
Or rather, why don’t they get reprinted with new illustrations all that often?
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