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How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin

Rudyard Kipling

First published 1902
Type Short Fiction
Length Short Story
Series Just So Stories

Notes


"How the Rhinoceros Got His Wrinkly Skin". Copyright, 1898, by the Century Company. (per 1912 copyright page, Just So Stories)

Published in the US monthly St. Nicholas XXV:4 p272-75 (February 1898) as the last in a three-part serial there styled '"Just So" Stories' (but 'The "Just-So" Stories' in other instalments), with illustrations by Oliver Herford, without subheading, opening "Now this is the last tale and it tells how the Rhinoceros got his wrinkly skin:" (digital copy at HathiTrust Digital Library)

The first story is slightly edited in the book; see Notes on that title for some account. (No others examined in detail --Pwendt 2016-06-30)   The book is illustrated by Kipling whose full-page drawings are accompanied by very long captions that amount to a significant expansion of the text.

Publications (40)

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
1902 Just So Stories for Little Children George N. Morang Collection 29
September 1902 Cover Just So Stories for Little Children Macmillan and Co. Collection 20
September 1902 Just So Stories for Little Children Doubleday, Page & Company Collection 29
1912 Cover Just So Stories Doubleday, Page & Company Collection 29
1958 Cover Just So Stories and Other Tales Caedmon Collection |3
1965 Just So Stories for Little Children Schocken Books Collection |3
July 1965 Cover Just So Stories: Volume II Disneyland Records Collection |2
January 1969 Children's Digest, January 1969 Parents' Magazine Press MAGAZINE 17
1973 Cover Just So Stories: Vol. 1 Argo (audio) Collection |3
1975 Just So Stories for Little Children Schocken Books Collection 29
May 1991 Cricket, the Magazine for Children, May 1991 Carus Corporation MAGAZINE 23
September 1993 Cover The Complete Just So Stories Little, Brown Collection |3
October 1993 Cover The Complete Just So Stories Viking Collection |3
1994 Cover Just So Stories Puffin Collection 25
1994 Cover Just So Stories Penguin Books Collection 24
2004 Cover Just So Stories Puffin Collection 25
December 2006 Cover Just So Stories LibriVox Collection |3
June 2007 Cover Just So Stories LibriVox Collection |3
2008 Cover Just So Stories Puffin Collection 25
May 2009 Cover Just So Stories LibriVox Collection |3
May 2009 Cover Just So Stories Phoenix Books Collection |3
December 2009 Cover Just So Stories Transaction Large Print Collection
April 2010 Cover Just So Stories LibriVox Collection |3
May 2010 Just So Stories Project Gutenberg Collection
October 2010 Cover Just So Stories Vintage Digital Collection
October 2011 Cover Just So Stories Wildside Press Collection
September 2012 Cover Just So Stories Collins Collection
September 2012 Cover Just So Stories Collins Collection
January 2013 Cover Just So Stories LibriVox Collection |3
June 2013 Cover Just So Stories Vintage Digital Collection
July 2013 Cover Just So Stories Abela Publishing Collection
September 2013 Cover Just So Stories Templar Publishing Collection
September 2013 Cover Just So Stories Vintage (UK) Collection 29|3
November 2013 Cover Just So Stories Palazzo Editions Collection
November 2013 Cover Just So Stories Heritage / Egmont Collection
July 2015 Cover Just So Stories Egmont Books Collection
August 2016 Cover Just So Stories Macmillan UK Collection
August 2016 Cover Just So Stories Macmillan UK Collection
September 2016 Cover Just So Stories Racehorse for Young Readers Collection
September 2016 Cover Just So Stories Pan Books Collection