Full Description
Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories was one of the first true children's books in the English language, a timeless classic that continues to delight readers to this day. Beautiful, evocative and playful, the stories of How the Whale Got His Throat or How the First Letter Was Written paint a world of magic and wonder. It's also deeply rooted in British colonialism. Kipling saw the Empire as a benign, civilising force, in a way that's troubling to modern readers. Not So Stories attempts to redress the balance, bringing together new and established writers of colour from around the world to take the Just So Stories back, to interrogate, challenge and celebrate their legacy. Including stories by Adiwijaya Iskandar, Joseph E. Cole, Raymond Gates, Stewart Hotston, Zina Hutton, Georgina Kamsika, Cassandra Khaw, Paul Krueger, Tauriq Moosa, Jeannette Ng, Ali Nouraei, Wayne Santos, Zedeck Siew and Achala Upendran, with illustrations by Woodrow Phoenix and a foreword by Nikesh Shukla.
Contents
Foreword, Nikesh ShuklaHow the Spider Got Her Legs, Cassandra KhawQueen, Joseph Elliott-ColemanBest Beloved, Wayne SantosThe Man Who Played With the Crab, Adiwijaya IskandarSamsara, Georgina KamsikaSerpent, Crocodile, Tiger, Zedeck SiewHow the Tree of Wishes Gained its Carapace of Plastic, Jeannette NgHow the Ants Got Their Queen, Stewart HotstonHow the Snake Lost its Spine, Tauriq MoosaThe Cat Who Walked by Herself, Achala UpendranStrays Like Us, Zina HuttonHow the Simurgh Won Her Tail, Ali NouraeiThere is Such Thing as a Whizzy-Gang, Raymond GatesHow the Camel Got Her Paid Time Off, Paul Krueger
