Just So Stories
Kipling invents elaborate answers to questions about animals, language and how the world acquired its familiar peculiarities.
Listen free: the LibriVox audiobook, read by Reynard T. Fox and Reynard's Dad. Press Listen in the reader to hear each chapter as you read.
- Length
- 12 stories
- Reading time
- About 2 hr 20 min
- Words
- 33,298
Contents
- How the Whale Got His Throat6 min
- How the Camel Got His Hump6 min
- How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin5 min
- How the Leopard Got His Spots10 min
- The Elephant’s Child12 min
- The Singsong of Old Man Kangaroo6 min
- The Beginning of the Armadillos13 min
- How the First Letter Was Written15 min
- How the Alphabet Was Made16 min
- The Crab That Played with the Sea17 min
- The Cat That Walked by Himself19 min
- The Butterfly That Stamped16 min