The Sing-Song of Old Man Kangaroo
"The Sing-Song of Old Man Kangaroo" is a short story — one of the Just So stories by Rudyard Kipling.
"The Sing-Song of Old Man Kangaroo" from "Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories"
The story was first told aloud by the author to his daughter Josephine as part of their oral tradition.[1] It was then written down and first published in Ladies' Home Journal in June 1900.[2]
It involves a vain kangaroo who asks three gods to make him unlike other animals, and sought-after. Two of them, the Little God and the Middle God , refuse, and only the third, the Big God , accepts. The result is Yellow-Dog Dingo trying to catch Kangaroo all across Australia, explaining how kangaroos came to have strong legs.
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References[]
- ^ David Adams Leeming, Marion Sader (1997), Storytelling encyclopedia, Oryx Press
- ^ A Bibliography of Rudyard Kipling
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- 19th-century British children's literature
- Fictional kangaroos and wallabies
- Animal tales
- Short stories by Rudyard Kipling
- Works originally published in Ladies' Home Journal
- 1902 short stories
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