| Just So Stories: (Rudyard Kipling Classics Collection) Contributor(s): Kipling, Rudyard (Author) |
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ISBN: 1508763720 ISBN-13: 9781508763727 Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform OUR PRICE: $6.64 Product Type: Paperback Published: March 2015 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Lexile Measure: 1060 |
| Physical Information: 0.15" H x 5.98" W x 9.02" (0.24 lbs) 74 pages |
| Themes: - Topical - Adolescence/Coming of Age |
| Accelerated Reader Info |
| Quiz #: 20231 Reading Level: 6.4 Interest Level: Middle Grades Point Value: 5.0 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: So the Whale swam and swam and swam, with both flippers and his tail, as hard as he could for the hiccoughs; and at last he saw the Mariner's natal-shore and the white-cliffs-of-Albion, and he rushed half-way up the beach, and opened his mouth wide and wide and wide, and said, 'Change here for Winchester, Ashuelot, Nashua, Keene, and stations on the Fitchburg Road;' and just as he said 'Fitch' the Mariner walked out of his mouth. But while the Whale had been swimming, the Mariner, who was indeed a person of infinite-resource-and-sagacity, had taken his jack-knife and cut up the raft into a little square grating all running criss-cross, and he had tied it firm with his suspenders (now, you know why you were not to forget the suspenders ), and he dragged that grating good and tight into the Whale's throat, and there it stuck Then he recited the following Sloka, which, as you have not heard it, I will now proceed to relate- |
