Just So Stories 8.5.07

Just So Stories - Kipling's imagined answers to such questions draw on the beast fables he heard as a child in India, as well as on folk games with language, exploring the relationships between thought, speech, and the written word. He also celebrates his own joy in fatherhood. The tales were told to his own and his friends' children over many years before he wrote them down, adding his own poems. They invite older and younger readers to share a magical experience, each contributing to the other's pleasure, but each can also enjoy them alone, as more jokes, subtexts, and exotic references emerge with every reading.

• Everyone knows Rudyard Kipling's animals are the ones most worthknowing anywhere.
• This collection-;beautifully performed by Boris Karloff-;includes Kipling's Just So Stories (where we meet the animals when the world was new-;so new.
• In fact, that the Rhinoceros had not yet losthis buttons!) and stories from his timeless classic, The Jungle Book.
• Kipling's imagined answers to such questions draw on the beast fables he heard as a child in India, as well as on folk games with language, exploring the relationships between thought, speech, and the written word.
• He also celebrates his own joy in fatherhood.
• The tales were told to his own and his friends' children over many years before he wrote them down, adding his own poems.
• They invite older and younger readers to share a magical experience, each contributing to the other's pleasure, but each can also enjoy them alone, as more jokes, subtexts, and exotic references emerge with every reading.