Title: The Tabu Tale
Title Record # 2025828
Author: Rudyard Kipling
Date: 1903-08-29
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: novelette
Series: Just So Stories
Language: English
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Author: Rudyard Kipling
Date: 1903-08-29
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: novelette
Series: Just So Stories
Language: English
Note:
A third tale featuring Taffy, thought to be based on Kipling's daughter Josephine or Effie, deceased, for whom "Just-So" stories had originated as bedtime tales.
The others are "How the First Letter Was Written" and "How the Alphabet was Made" -- commonly printed as the 8th and 9th stories in the collection; some collections include this story printed 10th
First published one year after the first Just So Stories collection
Published in Collier's Weekly 1903-08-29 (US) and Windsor Magazine 1903-09 (UK monthly, [p363])
--per Lesnik-Oberstein Children's Literature: New Approaches 2004; citing the Oxford World's Classics edition of Just So Stories, ed. Lisa Lewis, which includes the tale as Appendix A, p189-211
(Length probably 6000 to 7000 words, estimate from Appendix B, p213-18, available in preview online)
Featured in Kirkus Reviews 1993-11-01 (posted 2010): "very long ... and the most didactic of all" in The Complete Just So Stories
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Publications
| Title | Date | Author/Editor | Publisher/Pub. Series | ISBN/Catalog ID | Price | Pages | Format | Type | Cover Artist | Verif |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Collier's, August 29, 1903 | 1903-08-29 | ed. Editors of Collier's | $0.10?$: US dollar |
36 | unknown?The publication record was created from a secondary source and the publication format is unknown. |
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| The Windsor Magazine, September 1903 | 1903-09-00 | ed. Editors of The Windsor Magazine | 120 | unknown?The publication record was created from a secondary source and the publication format is unknown. |
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| The Complete Just So Stories | 1993-09-23 | Rudyard Kipling | Little, Brown | 0-316-90696-4 | 157 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
coll | Isabelle Brent | ||
| The Complete Just So Stories | 1993-10-01 | Rudyard Kipling | Viking | 0-670-85196-5 | 157 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
coll | Isabelle Brent | ||
| Just So Stories | 2016-05-16 | ed. Nicole Petit | 18thWall | 978-0-692-71630-4 | $11.99?$: US dollar |
173 | tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep. |
anth |  |