The Just So Stories for Little Children (Illustrated)
How animals got their stripes, spots, and humps—illustrated fantastical origin tales for young readersBy Rudyard Kipling
Length3h 38m
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The Just So Stories for Little Children are a highly fantasized origin stories, especially for differences among animals, they are among Kipling's best known works. The stories are pourquoi (French for "why") or origin stories, fantastic accounts of how various phenomena came about. In it, Mowgli hears the story of how the tiger got his stripes. The Just So Stories typically have the theme of a particular animal being modified from an original form to its current form by the acts of man, or some magical being. For example, the Whale has a tiny throat because he swallowed a mariner, who tied a raft inside to block the whale from swallowing other men. The Camel has a hump given to him by a djinn as punishment for the camel's refusing to work (the hump allows the camel to work longer between times of eating). The Leopard's spots were painted by an Ethiopian (after the Ethiopian painted himself black). The Kangaroo gets its powerful hind legs, long tail, and hopping gait after being chased all day by a dingo, sent by a minor god responding to the Kangaroo's request to be made different from all other animals.
Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) was an English short-story writer, poet, and novelist. He wrote tales and poems of British soldiers in India and stories for children. He is regarded as a major innovator in the art of the short story; his children's books are classics of children's literature; and one critic described his work as exhibiting "a versatile and luminous narrative gift".
Audiobook details
GenreChildren's Literature
Length3 hrs 38 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateAug 26, 2015
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1How the Whale Got His Throat
7The Beginning of the Armadillos
2How the Camel Got His Hump
8How the First Letter Was Written
3How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin
9How the Alphabet Was Made
4How the Leopard Got His Spots
10The Crab That Played With the Sea
5The Elephant's Child
11The Cat That Walked by Himself
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6The Sing-Song of Old Man Kangaroo
12The Butterfly That Stamped
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