Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Just So Stories (version 5)
    Just So Stories (version 5)
    Just So Stories (version 5)
    Audiobook3 hours

    Just So Stories (version 5)

    Written by Rudyard Kipling

    Narrated by LibriVox Community

    ()

    About this audiobook

    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. 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 memorize passages from them. they have been recorded several times before but I wanted to enjoy rolling those wonderful words around myself. What fun!(Summary from Wikipedia)
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLibriVox
    Release dateAug 25, 2014
    Just So Stories (version 5)
    Author

    Rudyard Kipling

    Rudyard Kipling was born in Bombay (now known as Mumbai), India, but returned with his parents to England at the age of five. Among Kipling’s best-known works are The Jungle Book, Just So Stories, and the poems “Mandalay” and “Gunga Din.” Kipling was the first English-language writer to receive the Nobel Prize for literature (1907) and was among the youngest to have received the award. 

    More audiobooks from Rudyard Kipling

    Related to Just So Stories (version 5)

    Related audiobooks

    Children's For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      A Twitch Upon The Thread

      Oct 17, 2019

      A Twitch Upon The Thread
      6 min read

    • Article

      DULCE DOMUM From The Wind In The Willows

      Nov 1, 2022

      DULCE DOMUM From The Wind In The Willows
      11 min read

    • Article

      The Swan

      Aug 27, 2021

      The Swan
      5 min read

    • Article

      The Travelling Artist

      Feb 10, 2022

      The Travelling Artist
      7 min read

    • Article

      Bard In The Woods

      Nov 30, 2020

      Bard In The Woods
      4 min read

    • Article

      Why The Whale Lives In The Sea

      Apr 1, 2024

      Why The Whale Lives In The Sea
      3 min read

    • Article

      A Close Encounter With A Lion

      May 25, 2023

      My Dear Baker Mrs Oswell and myself thoroughly enjoyed our stay with you and your charming wife in June. It was a true pleasure for us both to renew old times and friendship. We trust that your trip to India will be a pleasant one, and the ship you a

      6 min read

    • Article

      The Maldives: A taste of Eden

      Jun 29, 2023

      The Maldives: A taste of Eden
      9 min read

    • Article

      Three Poems

      Jul 1, 2023

      I held a birdin my hand. No. It was a game—a child’s game. No, my bird friend saidwhen he unstrung the mist net whereone bird hung mid- flight, between scruband sumac, by the slender path.Like this. He placed it so. In myopen palm—then closed my fing

      2 min read

    • Article

      Temptation

      Dec 28, 2021

      Temptation
      6 min read

    • Article

      Jumping the Rails

      Nov 16, 2020

      Jumping the Rails
      4 min read

    • Article

      Queen Of Salt

      Feb 6, 2020

      Queen Of Salt
      10 min read

    • Article

      Antelope Dreams

      Feb 2, 2024

      Antelope Dreams
      4 min read

    • Article

      Major Long Talks to His Horse

      Feb 20, 2019

      Major Long Talks to His Horse
      6 min read

    • Article

      A Day To Remember

      May 24, 2023

      A Day To Remember
      4 min read

    • Article

      The Island

      Jun 4, 2018

      The Island
      8 min read

    • Article

      Beside The Seaside

      Nov 25, 2021

      Beside The Seaside
      5 min read

    • Article

      Tuskers

      Jul 1, 2018

      Tuskers
      9 min read

    • Article

      The Monkey And The Dolphin

      Jun 7, 2023

      The Monkey And The Dolphin
      2 min read

    • Article

      Five Poems

      Jul 1, 2018

      Without the adventof Stockholm Syndrome,how could I havelearned to love myself so much? I’m asking Godand New York, can anyonehelp me? (An all-but-audible “or else.”) The captain’s chair:it’s beginning to smella little too much like me. Again.But the

      4 min read

    • Article

      He Who Fishes

      Feb 6, 2023

      He Who Fishes
      15 min read

    • Article

      Child On The Marsh

      Oct 2, 2018

      Child On The Marsh
      2 min read

    • Article

      The Right Time

      Oct 14, 2019

      The Right Time
      5 min read

    • Article

      Four Poems

      Jan 1, 2021

      I learned the world through the bottoms of my feet, barein the creeks of summer, stepping on pebbles, the squidgeof moss between my toes. On hot asphalt, the hop and skipover cracks, feet already toughened by bramble, dirt, the pricklyground of pine

      4 min read

    • Article

      The World Turtle

      Jun 7, 2023

      The World Turtle
      4 min read

    • Article

      The first OSTAR

      Mar 26, 2020

      Ewen Southby-Tailyour Leo Cooper 1998 Pen and Sword 2003 In his biography Ewen Southby-Tailyour uses Blondie’s entries from his ‘social log’ to describe his experience of the first Observer Single-handed Trans-Atlantic Race (OSTAR) in June 1960. I lo

      4 min read

    Related categories

    Reviews for Just So Stories (version 5)

    0 ratings

    0 ratings0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words