just_so_kara_librivox Rudyard Kipling audio librivoxaudio audio_bookspoetry opensource_audio <a href="http://librivox.org/">LibriVox</a> recording of the Just So Stories, by Rudyard Kipling. Read by Kara Shallenberg. The stories, first published in 1902, are fantastic accounts of how various natural phenomena came about. The original editions of Just So Stories were illustrated with woodcuts by Kipling himself. 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. (Summary from Wikipedia) Read along online and see the illustrations at <a href="http://www.mainlesson.com/display.php?author=kipling&book=just&story=_contents">mainlesson.com</a>. For more free audio books or to become a volunteer reader, visit <a href="http://librivox.org/">LibriVox.org</a>. 2007-06-01 2007 LibriVox; literature; audiobook; kipling; just so; animals; children http://creativecommons.org/licenses/publicdomain/ 2007-06-01 07:21:17 info@librivox.org librivoxbooks 2007-06-01 15:52:22 LibriVox Librivox recording of a public-domain text 2007-06-01 15:54:57 librivoxbooks