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Binding: Hardcover
EAN: 9780517266557
ISBN: 0517266555
Label: Weathervane Books
Manufacturer: Weathervane Books
Number Of Items: 1
Book Pages: 210
Publication Date: 1978-08-05
Publisher: Weathervane Books
Reading Level: Ages 9-12
Product Release Date: 2003-08-05
Studio: Weathervane Books

Kipling's own drawings, with their long, funny captions, illustrate his hilarious explanations of How the Camel Got His Hump, How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin, How the Armadillo Happened, and other animal How's. He began inventing these stories in his American wife's hometown of Brattleboro, Vermont, to amuse his eldest daughter--and they have served ever since as a source of laughter for children everywhere.

Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Things Every Child Should Know
Review: 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.

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Customer Rating:
Review Summary: The quality lives up to the title
Review: The production of this fine collection of stories is "Just-So." I expected more from an MP3 recording. The stories themselves are fine... but the hissing? Try a different version perhaps.

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Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Just So Racist!!
Review: "Oh, plain black's best for a nigger" from "How the Lepard got his Spots"....need I say more??
I was very disappointed with this book after so many of the reviews were positive. Let's wake up!! It's 2007 and the Era of the word "Negro", or as Mr. Kipling likes to say..."nigger" is not a charming word to describe an African/black person! Why don't we keep these types of books in a special section on racist authors, and what not to spend time reading to our children!!

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Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Just So Stories a Wonderful book for all
Review: My daughter and I read this book a year ago for homeschool and enjoyed it immensly. We have moved out of country, and were not able to bring a lot things with us, this book included. However, she received this book for Christmas and couldn't have been more thrilled. It is a book that can be read again, and again. They are wonderful stories full of clever writing, great plots, and perfect for kids of all ages.

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Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories
Review: 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.

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