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Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling 4 Audio CD unabridged English

Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling 4 Audio CD unabridged English

$ 5.27

Availability: 1000 in stock
  • Language: English
  • Format: Audio CD
  • Condition: Brand New
  • Length: Unabridged
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  • Refund will be given as: Money back or replacement (buyer's choice)
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  • Case Type: Paper Sleeve
  • Author: Rudyard Kipling
  • Type: Audiobook
  • Features: Unabridged
  • Modified Item: No
  • Item must be returned within: 30 Days
  • All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
  • Book Title: Just So Stories
  • Intended Audience: Ages 4-8

    Description

    Just So Stories
    by
    Rudyard Kipling
    4 Audio CD
    The Just So Stories for Little Children are among Kipling's best known and loved works. This recording aims to be the first complete audio book of this title with nothing left out.
    The Nobel prize-winning author's enjoyment in playing with the sounds and meanings of words is very evident throughout, and adds to adults' enjoyment of these stories for children. This playfulness is also dramatically present in the plotting. For both reasons these stories been loved by generations of children and adults alike. Because the writing plays with sound and meaning the Just So Stories are best enjoyed when read aloud.
    As we all are, Kipling was a child of his time and social setting, so for example in "How the Leopard Got his Spots" he uses what one recent reviewer called "the N word" to refer to the Ethiopian. Each listener will need to examine critically both Kipling's attitudes and their own.
    This recording of the Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling includes Kipling's descriptions of the pictures he drew for the book. These pictures can be found in a PDF file to accompany each chapter. As well as the twelve stories most often published under this title (from the first British edition) it also includes "The Tabu Tale" a thirteenth story (included in the first US edition). The last story Kipling wrote "Ham and the Porcupine" is also a just so story, but has not usually been collected with the others, and perhaps lacks their verve and wordplay. The Kipling Society publishes an excellent freely available online edition with a good set of notes on the text.
    The stories are fanciful, and not intended to offer historical, scientific or religious accounts of the way things became. They are simply and exquisitely stories to enjoy.
    So please enjoy them in this reading.
    Read by
    Tim Bulkeley
    Approx. Play Time: 4 hours 2 minutes
    Chapter List
    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 TABU TALE
    13
    THE BUTTERFLY THAT STAMPED
    THIS CD WILL PLAY IN ANY CD PLAYER INCLUDING YOUR CAR