AudioPod : Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling, Rating Children, Genre Fiction, General

Just So Stories

Title

Just So Stories

Author

Rudyard Kipling

Age Group

Children

Rating

Not yet rated.

Genre

Fiction, General

Duration

3 hours 06 minutes 09 seconds

Summary

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 memorise passages from them.

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Narrator

Kara Shallenberg



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