The teller of the tales, or fables, addresses his hearer as O My Best Beloved, who was Kipling’s eldest child, Josephine, who died at the age of six, in 1899. These were composed for an audience younger and more innocent than the readers of The Jungle Book stories. As a result, it is a delight to read them aloud, and easy to memorise passages from them. The Just So Stories were published in 1902. 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. Each story is accompanied by a poem, in a somewhat ballad style. Read along online and see the illustrations at. The original editions of Just So Stories were illustrated with woodcuts by Kipling himself. The stories, first published in 1902, are fantastic accounts of how various natural phenomena came about. Download cover art Download CD case insert Just So Stories (version 2) If (('gtm=off') const isAppRedirect = ('appRedirect') Ĭonst isAndroid = /Android/i.test(erAgent) Ĭonst isIphone = /iPhone|iPad|iPod/i.test(erAgent) In 1907 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, making him the first English-language writer to receive the prize, and to date he remains its youngest recipient. Kipling was one of the most popular writers in England, in both prose and verse, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Kipling is best known for his works of fiction, including The Jungle Book, Just So Stories (1902), Kim (1901) (a tale of adventure), and many short stories. He was born in Bombay, in the Bombay Presidency of British India, and was taken by his family to England when he was five years old. Joseph Rudyard Kipling was an English short-story writer, poet, and novelist chiefly remembered for his tales and poems of British soldiers in India, and his tales for children. Because the writing plays with sound and meaning the Just So Stories are best enjoyed when read aloud.

For both reasons these stories been loved by generations of children and adults alike. This playfulness is also dramatically present in the plotting. 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 recording aims to be the first complete audio book of this title with nothing left out.

The Just So Stories for Little Children are among Kipling's best known and loved works.

Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling