Excerpt from Kipling Stories and Poems Every Child Should Know This book has been sixteen years on the way, and it has arrived. Long years ago many teachers in central Illinois said: We want a Kipling book. The demand was for a book that could be used in each grade of the public schools, if possible in the child's own hands. The use of The Just SO Stories and The Jungle Book has come more and more into practice through the importunities Of teachers. These books have been entered on many school lists as supplementary reading. This book is intended to reach the hands of chil dren in lower grades, kindergartens, and nurseries, by its picture pages, which will be supplemented by the reading of the text by teachers or parents. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.