Rudyard Kipling
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
CLASSIC FICTION (CHILDREN'S / TEENAGE). Following the initial success of The Jungle Book, Rudyard Kipling published the collection of parables Just So Stories. He first entertained his own children with these delightful and humorous tales before deciding to write them down for publication. The stories are written in the form of what came to be also known as pourqoui (French for "why") stories, each explaining how and why things came to be as they...
Author
Publisher
Baronet Books
Pub. Date
c1992
Language
English
Description
The son of a millionaire is swept overboard and rescued by a small fishing boat where he must work to earn his keep and learns about a way of life where money cannot buy everything and a man's worth lies in who he is, not what he owns.