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Just-So Stories by Rudyard Kipling
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Just-So Stories (1902)

by Rudyard Kipling

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They were clever enough. I'm torn between wanting to read them to my niece, or being afraid it will just make her dumber! You know, like how people think it's cute when kids say "pasketi" or "Valentimes Day" or "birfday"...then kids wind up talking like illiterate morons for most (if not all) of their lives! It is actually a pet peeve of mine when people talk baby talk to kids, my sister does it all the time and I have to restrain myself from yelling at her (since it is, in fact, her kid and not mine)! If I read this to my nephew Colton, he would ask me if it was true...he already has trouble differentiating between movies and reality. I did enjoy it, but it seems like a real mind trip for kids... ( )
  Ameliapei | Apr 18, 2013 |
I never actually read these as a kid. I remember having them read to me, but I never read them for myself. Which, as Phillip Pullman says in the introduction, is a shame, because they're wonderfully playful and easy to read, and even if there are words you don't understand (there weren't, for me now, but when I was little...) they're bright and lively and I can bet I'd have had more fun imagining what they might mean than actually finding out. These stories were definitely the kind I couldn't help but whisper to myself. I think they'd make even a non-synesthetic taste the words. I enjoyed the illustrations and the notes that went with them, too. In general they were just playful and fun to read, even now I'm all growed up. I especially liked the armadillo one, but perhaps that's because it included a character called Stickly-Prickly Hedgehog, and I do adore hedgehogs. The next one we rescue in our garden will have to be called Stickly-Prickly, I think. ( )
  shanaqui | Apr 9, 2013 |
I can't recall how many times I checked this book out from the library as a child. ( )
  pussreboots | Apr 6, 2013 |
This is truly magnificent. I can;t wait to finish listening to this. Geoffrey Palmer is FANTASTIC reading these stories. And the music that goes along with them are so sweet. I would recommend this to anyone who loves Palmer, or who has children. I could see listening to this with kids on a family vacation long drive. It is about 3.5 hrs long. ( )
  purlewe | Apr 1, 2013 |
I enjoyed these so much that I was crushed when I realized I had listened to the last story. The narrator was Geoffrey Palmer - I now have another reason to think he is marvelous, he was such a storyteller. ( )
  sriemann | Mar 31, 2013 |
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My copy of Just So Stories, in it's brick-red cover with the Elephant's Child straining away with all his might to escape the jaws of the Crocodile on the banks of "the great grey-green, greasy Limpopo River", the Bi-Coloured-Python-Rock-Snake in close attendance was the first book I truly loved. ... Kipling has an Aesopian understanding of animals, our dealings with them and our curious interrelatedness, interdependence, how we can learn about our own strange behaviour, our vanities and our foolishness through them and through our relationship with them.
 

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Author nameRoleType of authorWork?Status
Kipling, Rudyardprimary authorall editionsconfirmed
Foreman, MichaelIllustratormain authorsome editionsconfirmed
Ingpen, RobertIllustratormain authorsome editionsconfirmed
Puttapipat, NirootIllustratormain authorsome editionsconfirmed
Ambrus, Victor G.Illustratorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Delessert, EtienneIllustratorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Hallqvist, Britt G.Translatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Mayan, EarlIllustratorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Morris, JohnnyNarratorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Reiner, CarlNarratorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
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In the sea, once upon a time, O my Best Beloved, there was a Whale, and he ate fishes.
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These witty stories were originally told by Rudyard Kipling to his own children. In them he gives fanciful accounts of how and why things came to be as they are.

Generations of children have delighted to learn how the Leopard got his spots, how the Elephant's Child on the banks of the great grey-green greasy Limpopo acquired his trunk with the help of the Crocodile, and the beginning of Armadillos.

Beautifully illustrated in black-and-white by the author, these delightful tales will hold the reader or listener spellbound.
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Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0517266555, Hardcover)

Kipling's own drawings, with their long, funny captions, illustrate his hilarious explanations of How the Camel Got His Hump, How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin, How the Armadillo Happened, and other animal How's. He began inventing these stories in his American wife's hometown of Brattleboro, Vermont, to amuse his eldest daughter--and they have served ever since as a source of laughter for children everywhere.

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Twelve stories about animals, insects, and other subjects include "How the Camel Got His Hump." "The Butterfly That Stamped," and "How the Alphabet Was Made."

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