Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling
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Book Reviews of Just So Stories
Book Review: A classic, but beware some terms.
Summary: 5 Stars
I loved Just So Stories as a child, and the stories are - for the most part - still really wonderful. Be aware if you are buying this for someone, however, that some of the stories are less than flattering to minorities and one of the stories does use the word "nigger," so this is definitely a book for someone who is old enough to talk to about language and what's appropriate and so on.Book Review: Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories
Summary: 5 Stars
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.Book Review: Old English is hard for kiddies, but fun for adults!
Summary: 5 Stars
The kids will have a hard time reading the old English style this book was written in, though the quality of the work makes it worth buying and reading to your children, with translation into modern English, or course!Book Review: Kipling's Just So Stories
Summary: 5 Stars
This was the 2nd book in my Grandson's Birthday Present. I am told that it is a big hit with my 3 other grand children as well.Book Review: Just so-so.
Summary: 3 Stars
I hate to disagree with the vast majority of reviewers here, but as a whole, I don't think the book works.
"The Elephant's Child" and "The Cat That Walked By Himself" are memorable- I have fond memories of listening to audio recording of those when I was really young. "The great gray-green greasy Limpopo River, all set about with fever trees," is imaginative writing. Another favorite passage, "'My young friend, if you do not now, immediately and instantly, pull as hard as ever you can, it is my opinion that your acquaintance in the large paern leather ulter' (and by this he meant the Crocodile) 'will jerk you into yonder limpid stream before you can say Jack Robinson.' This is the way Bi-Coloured-Python-Rock-Snakes always talk." And who can forget "'Nenni!' said the Cat. 'I am the Cat who walks by himself, and all places are alike to me.'"?
The other stories, unfortunately, are forgettable. "How the First Letter Was Written" failed to capture at least my imagination, though it did have some moments. In addition, "The Butterfly that Stamped" is just bizarre. The other stories are similarly weak.
I'm glad I own the book for the two stories I mentioned above, as they are classics. But taken as a whole, I think that the "Just So Stories" are vastly overrated.