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Just So Stories (version 2) by Rudyard KIPLING (1868 - 1936) Genre(s): Animals & Nature Read by: Kara Shallenberg in English Chapters: 00:00:00 - 01 - How the Whale Got His Throat 00:07:17 - 02 - How the Camel Got His Hump 00:14:28 - 03 - How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin 00:20:22 - 04 - How the Leopard Got His Spots 00:34:28 - 05 - The Elephant's Child 00:51:32 - 06 - The Sing-Song of Old Man Kangaroo 00:59:55 - 07 - The Beginning of the Armadillos 01:17:01 - 08 - How the First Letter was Written 01:38:45 - 09 - How the Alphabet was Made 02:03:47 - 10 - The Crab that Played with the Sea 02:25:03 - 11 - The Cat who Walked by Himself 02:49:49 - 12 - The Butterfly that Stamped 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. Read along online and see the illustrations at . 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. (Summary from Wikipedia) More information:
