Just So Stories!

(By: Rudyard Kipling, in 1902)

(MP3 Audiobook)

The stories, first published in 1902, are fantastic accounts of how various natural phenomena came about. The original editions of Just So Stories were illustrated with woodcuts by Kipling himself. Each story is accompanied by a poem, in a somewhat ballad style. Many of the stories are addressed to “Best Beloved” (they were first written for Kipling’s eldest daughter, Josephine, who had died during an outbreak of influenza in 1899), and throughout they use a comically elevated style inspired by the formal speech of India, full of long and improbable-sounding words, some of them made up. As a result, it is a delight to read them aloud, and easy to memorize passages from them.

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CONTENTS:

01 How the Whale Got His Throat
02 How The Camel Got His Hump
03 How The Rhinoceros Got His Skin
04 How the Leopard Got His Spots
05 The Elephant’s Child
06 The Sing-Song of Old Man Kangaroo
07 The Beginning of the Armadillos
08 How the First Letter was Written
09 How The Alphabet Was Made
10 The Crab that Played with the Sea
11 The Cat that Walked by Himself
12 The Butterfly that Stamped