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 Nqa and the Middle God Nquing, refuse, and only the third, the Big God Nqong, accepts. The result is Yellow-Dog Dingo trying to catch Kangaroo all across Australia, explaining how kangaroos came to have strong legs.

Plot

References
  1. David Adams Leeming, Marion Sader (1997), Storytelling encyclopedia, Oryx Press, ISBN 9781573560252
  2. Martindell, Ernest Walter (1972), A Bibliography of Rudyard Kipling, ISBN 9780838315149


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