Description: Just So StoriesbyRudyard Kipling4 Audio CD The Just So Stories for Little Children are among Kipling's best known and loved works. This recording aims to be the first complete audio book of this title with nothing left out. The Nobel prize-winning author's enjoyment in playing with the sounds and meanings of words is very evident throughout, and adds to adults' enjoyment of these stories for children. This playfulness is also dramatically present in the plotting. For both reasons these stories been loved by generations of children and adults alike. Because the writing plays with sound and meaning the Just So Stories are best enjoyed when read aloud. As we all are, Kipling was a child of his time and social setting, so for example in "How the Leopard Got his Spots" he uses what one recent reviewer called "the N word" to refer to the Ethiopian. Each listener will need to examine critically both Kipling's attitudes and their own. This recording of the Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling includes Kipling's descriptions of the pictures he drew for the book. These pictures can be found in a PDF file to accompany each chapter. As well as the twelve stories most often published under this title (from the first British edition) it also includes "The Tabu Tale" a thirteenth story (included in the first US edition). The last story Kipling wrote "Ham and the Porcupine" is also a just so story, but has not usually been collected with the others, and perhaps lacks their verve and wordplay. The Kipling Society publishes an excellent freely available online edition with a good set of notes on the text. The stories are fanciful, and not intended to offer historical, scientific or religious accounts of the way things became. They are simply and exquisitely stories to enjoy. So please enjoy them in this reading. Read by Tim Bulkeley Approx. Play Time: 4 hours 2 minutes Chapter List 1HOW THE WHALE GOT HIS THROAT 2HOW THE CAMEL GOT HIS HUMP 3HOW THE RHINOCEROS GOT HIS SKIN 4 HOW THE LEOPARD GOT HIS SPOTS 5THE ELEPHANT'S CHILD 6THE SING-SONG OF OLD MAN KANGAROO 7THE BEGINNING OF THE ARMADILLOS 8HOW THE FIRST LETTER WAS WRITTEN 9HOW THE ALPHABET WAS MADE 10THE CRAB THAT PLAYED WITH THE SEA 11THE CAT THAT WALKED BY HIMSELF 12THE TABU TALE 13THE BUTTERFLY THAT STAMPED THIS CD WILL PLAY IN ANY CD PLAYER INCLUDING YOUR CAR
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Book Title: Just So Stories
Case Type: Paper Sleeve
Format: Audio CD
Type: Audiobook
Features: Unabridged
Author: Rudyard Kipling
Language: English
Modified Item: No
Length: Unabridged
Intended Audience: Ages 4-8, Ages 9-12, Young Adults, Adults
