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Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling

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Just So Stories

Author
Rudyard Kipling
Narrator
Geoffrey Palmer
Publisher
Naxos AudioBooks
Publish Date
1 April 2005
Run Time
3 hours 27 minutes
Format
Audiobook
Genre
Children’s / Teenage fiction: Classic fiction
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What to expect

‘I am the cat who walks by himself and all places are alike to me.’ Here are the delightful stories which Kipling first told his own children before setting them down on paper. How the Camel got his Hump, How the Leopard got his spots, How the Elephant got his Trunk, The Butterfly that Stamped, and many others. They remain popular, entertaining every generation, partly because of the story and partly because of the vivid way they are written. To hear them – unabridged as they are here – is to enjoy them in their original form.

Critics Review

  • The best version of Rudyard Kipling’s Just So Stories.

    Christina Hardyment, The Times

  • Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award These literate and imaginative beast fables contain serious moral messages, but 101 years after their publication children still love them because they’re fun. Kipling believed his stories should be read aloud, ‘just so’, and narrator Geoffrey Palmer is just superb. He reads with the gentle assurance of a beloved grown-up, providing Kipling’s wildly improbable explanations to inquisitive children. We discover ‘How the Whale Got His Throat’, ‘How the Camel Got His Hump’, ‘How the Alphabet Was Made’, and much more. From South Africa to Jerusalem, from the mid-Atlantic to a fictional island in the Red Sea, all are set in that wonderful place where animals can talk. This charming production includes a pamphlet with drawings and a snippet of classical music as a prelude to each of the 12 stories.

    S.J.H., AudioFile

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Details
Author
Rudyard Kipling
Narrator
Geoffrey Palmer
Duration
3 hours 27 minutes
Release Date
1 April 2005
ISBN
9789629544089
Format
Audiobook
Publisher
Naxos AudioBooks
Genre
Children’s / Teenage fiction: Classic fiction

Synopsis

‘I am the cat who walks by himself and all places are alike to me.’ Here are the delightful stories which Kipling first told his own children before setting them down on paper. How the Camel got his Hump, How the Leopard got his spots, How the Elephant got his Trunk, The Butterfly that Stamped, and many others. They remain popular, entertaining every generation, partly because of the story and partly because of the vivid way they are written. To hear them – unabridged as they are here – is to enjoy them in their original form.

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