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''See also Just-so story for anthropological sense''
The '''Just So Stories for Little Children''' were written by British author Rudyard Kipling. They are highly fantasized origin stories and are among Kipling's best known works.
The stories, first published in 1902, are fantastic accounts of how various natural phenomena came about. A forerunner of these stories is "How Fear Came" in ''The Second Jungle Book'' (1895), in which Mowgli hears the story of how the tiger got his stripes.
The original editions of ''Just So Stories'' were illustrated with woodcuts by Kipling himself, though later editions have included illustrations by other artists.
Each story is accompanied by a poem, in a somewhat ballad style. The poem after "The Elephant's Child" is particularly widely quoted; it opens:
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 memorise passages from them. They were a highly popular item on the BBC's radio programme ''Children's Hour'' in the 1950s.
Some sense of the style of the stories may be gathered from the following extract:
★ ''How the Whale got his Throat''
★ ''How the Camel got his Hump''
★ ''How the Rhinoceros got his Skin''
★ ''How the Leopard got his Spots''
★ ''The Elephant's Child''
★ ''The Sing-Song of Old Man Kangaroo''
★ ''The Beginning of the Armadilloes''
★ ''How the First Letter was Written''
★ ''How the Alphabet was Made''
★ ''The Crab that Played with the Sea''
★ ''The Cat that Walked by Himself''
★ ''The Butterfly that Stamped''
As well as appearing in a collection, the individual stories have also been published separately, often in large-format illustrated editions for younger children. A video edition has also been released; on VHS tapes it required three tapes with four episodes on each.
The "magic mark" inscribed on the stone under the man's foot in Kipling's original illustration for "The Crab That Played With the Sea" is actually an inverted swastika (originally a sign of peace); Kipling used the inverted swastika as an emblem on his books, for its oriental connections (this was before it was adopted by the Nazis).
The Just So Stories have recently been adapted into Just So (musical).
★ Just-so story in the context of evolutionary explanations.
★ ''Just So Songs''
★ ''The Cat Who Walked by Herself'', a Soviet animated feature film based on ''The Cat that Walked by Himself''
★ ''Just So (musical)
★ ''Complete Audio book: Rudyard Kipling - The Just So Stories - read by actor Art Malik ''
★ http://www.boop.org/jan/justso/ Full text of the stories, including Kipling's illustrations
★
★ ''Free audiobook download of Just So Stories FreeClassicAudioBooks.com''
★ ''Audio files of The Just So Stories - read by an actual person StationCrafts.net''
★ ''The Elephant's Child Free Audio Story'' by Storynory
★ ''The Just So Stories'' read by Tim Bulkeley
The '''Just So Stories for Little Children''' were written by British author Rudyard Kipling. They are highly fantasized origin stories and are among Kipling's best known works.
| Contents |
| Description |
| The Elephant's Child |
| The full list of Just-So Stories |
| Trivia |
| See also |
| Notes and references |
| External links |
Description
The stories, first published in 1902, are fantastic accounts of how various natural phenomena came about. A forerunner of these stories is "How Fear Came" in ''The Second Jungle Book'' (1895), in which Mowgli hears the story of how the tiger got his stripes.
The original editions of ''Just So Stories'' were illustrated with woodcuts by Kipling himself, though later editions have included illustrations by other artists.
Each story is accompanied by a poem, in a somewhat ballad style. The poem after "The Elephant's Child" is particularly widely quoted; it opens:
I keep six honest serving-men
(They taught me all I knew);
Their names are What and Why and When
And How and Where and Who.
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 memorise passages from them. They were a highly popular item on the BBC's radio programme ''Children's Hour'' in the 1950s.
The Elephant's Child
Some sense of the style of the stories may be gathered from the following extract:
One of Kipling's original illustrations for ''The Elephant's Child''.
The full list of Just-So Stories
''How the Rhino got his Skin'', woodcut by Kipling
★ ''How the Whale got his Throat''
★ ''How the Camel got his Hump''
★ ''How the Rhinoceros got his Skin''
★ ''How the Leopard got his Spots''
★ ''The Elephant's Child''
★ ''The Sing-Song of Old Man Kangaroo''
★ ''The Beginning of the Armadilloes''
★ ''How the First Letter was Written''
★ ''How the Alphabet was Made''
★ ''The Crab that Played with the Sea''
★ ''The Cat that Walked by Himself''
★ ''The Butterfly that Stamped''
As well as appearing in a collection, the individual stories have also been published separately, often in large-format illustrated editions for younger children. A video edition has also been released; on VHS tapes it required three tapes with four episodes on each.
Trivia
The "magic mark" inscribed on the stone under the man's foot in Kipling's original illustration for "The Crab That Played With the Sea" is actually an inverted swastika (originally a sign of peace); Kipling used the inverted swastika as an emblem on his books, for its oriental connections (this was before it was adopted by the Nazis).
The Just So Stories have recently been adapted into Just So (musical).
See also
★ Just-so story in the context of evolutionary explanations.
★ ''Just So Songs''
★ ''The Cat Who Walked by Herself'', a Soviet animated feature film based on ''The Cat that Walked by Himself''
★ ''Just So (musical)
Notes and references
External links
★ ''Complete Audio book: Rudyard Kipling - The Just So Stories - read by actor Art Malik ''
★ http://www.boop.org/jan/justso/ Full text of the stories, including Kipling's illustrations
★
★ ''Free audiobook download of Just So Stories FreeClassicAudioBooks.com''
★ ''Audio files of The Just So Stories - read by an actual person StationCrafts.net''
★ ''The Elephant's Child Free Audio Story'' by Storynory
★ ''The Just So Stories'' read by Tim Bulkeley
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