Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Just So Stories
Book Review: Old English is hard for kiddies, but fun for adults!
Summary: 5 Stars
The kids will have a hard time reading the old English style this book was written in, though the quality of the work makes it worth buying and reading to your children, with translation into modern English, or course!Book Review: Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories
Summary: 5 Stars
Timeless tales of a few animal origins. Prescious, priceless! And, absolutely Fantastic when read aloud to others with different voices for the different animals, as they were to me when I was a child. I bought several copies for my children so they could pass them on to thier children as well.Book Review: The Art of Story-telling lives on in this book
Summary: 5 Stars
These were many of my favorite stories as a child (and I'm medicare-ready now). Kiplings explanations of how things came to be are so much more imaginative and fun than the picture books of today. We have simplified reading to the point where it isn't really that much fun any more. As a teacher, I see so many aliterate young people: those who can read, but choose not to. Kipling is a great place to start reading for fun and information, even if the information is eventually discovered to be total and even ridiculous fiction. These stories stay in a child's memory.Book Review: Things Every Child Should Know
Summary: 5 Stars
As a child I read these wonderful stories, read them to my child and now he's reading them to his children. How can you get through life not knowing how the Elephant Got His Trunk or how the Camel Got His Hump. In these days of uncertainty, these questions beg to be answered. Even now, and I'm 60, I can quote passages from this book to unenlightened friends and have gotten some of them to read this to themselves and grand children. For so many years, Kipling was out of favor, it's nice that a new generation of children are reading these wonderful stories.Book Review: Way, Way Better Than I Ever Dreamed Of
Summary: 5 Stars
When I first bought this book, I thought it would be quite dull. Boy, was I wrong. I loved it from start to finish. Kipling shines as a a master humorist and storyteller, and through my reading of "Just So Stories" I never once had to stretch myself wondering why he was so popular in his day and why he won the Nobel Prize. His work speaks for itself.
I really likes his commentaries on his own pictures.
-"I should like to paint him with paint-box colours, but I am not allowed."
-"Pau Amma is trying to make a Magic, but he is only a silly old King Crab, and so he can't do anything."
-"It is all a magic picture, and that is one of the reasons why I haven't drawn the Jaguar's whiskers."
Absolutely wonderful.