Just So Stories (More)

Rudyard Kipling

ISBN 10: 1408410192 ISBN 13: 9781408410196

Publisher: BBC Audiobooks Ltd, 2009

Synopsis

This work features three more classic fables from Rudyard Kipling's "Just So Stories", read by Johnny Morris. Have you ever wondered how and why the animals came to be as they are? In these magical tales, drawn from stories he heard as a child in India as well as on folk traditions he later collected all over the world, Rudyard Kipling gives some wonderfully imaginative explanations. This selection includes "The Beginning of the Armadillos", "The Cat that Walked by Himself" and "The Butterfly that Stamped". Originally told by Rudyard Kipling for his own children, these witty, fanciful tales have been loved by generations of children ever since.

About this title

From the Back Cover

How did the camel get his hump? Why won't cats do as they are told? Who invented reading and writing? How did an inquisitive little elephant change the lives of elephants everywhere? Kipling's imagined answers to such questions draw on the beast fables he heard as a child in India, as well as on folk games with language, exploring the relationships between thought, speech, and the written word. He also celebrates his own joy in fatherhood. The tales were told to his own and his friends' children over many years before he wrote them down, adding poems and his own illustrations. They invite older and younger readers to share a magical experience, each contributing to the other's pleasure, but each can also enjoy them alone, as more jokes, subtexts, and exotic references emerge with every reading. This fully illustrated edition includes two extra stories and Kipling's own explanation of the title.

From the Inside Flap

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: BBC Audiobooks Ltd
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1408410192
• ISBN 13: 9781408410196
• Binding: Audio CD
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 2