5/25/2023 0 Comments Just so stories by rudyard kipling![]() These are stories about how things came to be. ![]() You do know what we're talking about, don't you? You do know the answers to some of the most important questions of all? You know how the whale got his throat? You know how the leopard got his spots? You know how the rhinoceros got his wrinkly, wrinkly skin? You know how the first letters were made? Why the cat walks by himself? Well, if you don't then you're missing out.Īmong the simplest of myth stories are the why stories or pourquoi tales. You might even like to be Parsee Pestonjee Bomonjee because he wears a rather sexy hat and eats only cakes which are two feet across and three feet thick (I wouldn't mind being the Parsee, either). You might like to be the Djinn In Charge Of All Deserts because he can make extremely good magic. ![]() The lovely thing about them is that you will enjoy them as much as they will.Īre you a person of Infinite-Resource-And-Sagacity? Sounds good that, doesn't it? I'm not sure I'm a person of Infinite-Resource-And-Sagacity, not like the mariner who hitched a lift home to England from a hungry whale and in doing so made sure that hungry whales would eat only small fish and never men or boys or little girls, but I'm pretty sure I'd like to be. They are best for reading aloud to little ones of about three up until they're less little ones of about eight. Summary: Delightfully droll, outrageous and silly, these folk tale retellings by Rudyard Kipling may be old, dated even, but they will never be out of date. ![]()
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