Read along online and see the illustrations at .įor further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording.įor more free audio books or to become a volunteer reader, visit. As a result, it is a delight to read them aloud, and easy to memorise passages from them. 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. The original editions of Just So Stories were illustrated with woodcuts by Kipling himself. Just So Stories is a collection of origin stories, fictional tales that explain why animals have certain characteristics and other themes akin to that. The stories, first published in 1902, are fantastic accounts of how various natural phenomena came about. Written by classic English author Rudyard Kipling, Just So Stories is considered not only a quintessential childrens book, but one of Kiplings best works. LibriVox recording of the Just So Stories, by Rudyard Kipling.
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