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Just So Stories

By: Rudyard Kipling
Narrated by: Johanna Ward
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Drawn from the enchanting tales told to Kipling as a child in India, Just So Stories reveals the magic of the dawn of the world, when animals could talk and think like people. Cats and dogs, kangaroos and tortoises, hedgehogs and jaguars, whales and leopards, and many others are brought to life in an exotic Eastern landscape of "high and far times ago". Children will discover how the leopard got his spots, the elephant his trunk, and the camel his hump through clever tales that subtly hint at the pitfalls of arrogance and the importance of creativity.

Kipling composed these 12 stories and 12 poems to be read aloud, and their whimsical imagery and rhythmic language are sure to delight both children and adults for another hundred years.

1. "How the Whale Got His Throat"
2. "How the Camel Got His Hump"
3. "How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin"
4. "How the Leopard Got His Spots"
5. "The Elephant's Child"
6. "The Sing Song of Old Man Kangaroo"
7. "The Beginning of the Armadillos"
8. "How the First Letter Was Written"
9. "How the Alphabet Was Made"
10. "The Crab That Played with the Sea"
11. "The Cat That Walked by Himself"
12. "The Butterfly That Stamped"

Public Domain (P)2017 Blackstone Audio, Inc. Classics Literature & Fiction Feel-Good Cats
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They are great story’s for trying to get some sleep but I would not recommend for under 10 years for I did not understand all the words used

Great but dated

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Some of the stories were excellent others were obscure and dated. Well worth listening to.

Excellent in parts

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I think that what you can do is get out of the sky fills and you came out on top of the road to the police to make this connection with the police

the leopard

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