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Title: Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling, Shelly Frasier ISBN: 1-4001-0064-X Publisher: Tantor Media Inc. Pub. Date: 15 December, 2002 Format: Audio CD Volumes: 3 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.28 (18 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Elephant's child in particular
Comment: This book is the most valued in my family history. Now my children are asking after it to read to their children because of all of the beloved memories it brings back. The language is a delight. The way Kipling draws the reader and listener in to feel they are part of the story, it is story telling magic at its very best. I can't believe anyone who has this book in their home, once read, will ever be without it. As long as children and that child in all adults long for the gifted story teller's magic, this book is special.
Rating: 5
Summary: One of my all-time favorites, as a child, and as an adult
Comment: I love this book, and loved it as a child, for the writing, the stories, and for the pictures which I could pore over again and again, looking for new details I missed previously. I have remembered and talked about many of the stories throughout my life, particularly The Cat Who Walks by Himself, and The Elephant's Child. I also like . . . oh, well, there are just too many to talk about. Read them for youself, and to your kids.
The stories are complex and mysterious and, though I can't say much for Kipling's politics, I find them delightful. I think most children will, too. As an adult, I couldn't get my mother to part with my childhood copy so I went out and bought one of my own.
A classic!
Rating: 5
Summary: Just So Stories
Comment: The just so stories
By: Rudyard Kipling Published by: William Morrow and Company
This book O best beloved (meaning you, in the language that the author used) is a short story book that has many adventures to it and the one that I'm going to tell you about is the story called, The Beginning of the Armadillos. This plot takes us to the steamy jungles of the Amazon rain forest in South America in the Northern part of Brazil. Also in this plot there lives a painted jaguar, a stickly-prickly hedgehog, and slow and solid tortoise. Now O best beloved (meaning you) this particular jaguar isn't very bright so he goes to his mother for advice on how to eat the hedgehog and the tortoise. Well, as any mother would, she tells him ohhh, so many times graciously waving her tail, "Painted Jaguar to catch the hedgehog you must dip him the water so he will uncoil and you must scoop the tortoise out of it's shell with your paw, got it?!" So he goes to the river to find the hedgehog and the tortoise so he can eat them. The first time they barely got away by confusing him. The hedgehog and the tortoise confuse him by messing up what his mother told him. But the second time Painted Jaguar is confused just by looking at them. You'll have to read it to believe it.
As you know, in this particular story you are introduced to a hedgehog named Stickly-Prickly and a tortoise named Slow and Solid. As you might see these two unique animals are very close and have the same predators. In this story Stickly-Prickly hedgehog and Slow and Solid tortoise are being hunted by a creature named Painted Jaguar, as you know, who is not too smart and has spots. Now since Stickly-Prickly and Slow and Solid were able to fool the jaguar once they want to make him so confused that he won't know which is which just by looking at them. So day after day they teach one another how the other works, like Stickly-Prickly teaches Slow and Solid to curl up and Slow and Solid teaches Stickly-Prickly how to swim. After they have done that and are comfortable with their skills they wait for Painted Jaguar to come looking for them but they don't know that they will never be the same again. Stickly-Prickly hedgehog and Slow and Solid tortoise help this particular story because they are smart and they fool the jaguar and they surprise the reader with their cunning and hard work.
This book has been really fun in the fact that there is more than one story in the book and for me more than one story meant that it was a page turner. The story that I described in this book review was easy to concentrate on because I liked it so much. Some stories in this book were just plain old boring so it was harder to read them . The thing that caught my attention was the language that the author used in the book, I thought that the language was very unique and very funny. To tell the truth I thought that there weren't very many surprises at all, the only surprises would be all the purposes of the story that was being told, like how the camel got his hump or the beginning of the Armadillos. To me they make the language in the book fun, like Oh best beloved and stickly-prickly and slow and solid. The people who might like this book would have to have a sense of humor, so if they have that then the person reading this book will have a very fun time indeed.
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Title: Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling ISBN: 0812504690 Publisher: Tor Books Pub. Date: February, 1992 List Price(USD): $2.99 |
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Title: Rikki-Tikki-Tavi by Jerry Pinkney, Rudyard Kipling ISBN: 0688143202 Publisher: William Morrow Pub. Date: September, 1997 List Price(USD): $16.99 |
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Title: The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling, Jerry Pinkney ISBN: 0688099793 Publisher: William Morrow Pub. Date: September, 1995 List Price(USD): $24.99 |
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Title: Three Tales of My Father's Dragon by Ruth Stiles Gannett, Ruth Chrisman Gannett, Berman ISBN: 0679889116 Publisher: Random House (Juv) Pub. Date: November, 1997 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: The Story of Ferdinand by Munro Leaf, Robert Lawson ISBN: 0670674249 Publisher: Viking Press Pub. Date: January, 1936 List Price(USD): $17.99 |
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