Just So Stories
by Rudyard Kipling
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Book Reviews of Just So Stories
Book Review: Excellent book
Summary: 5 Stars
I thought I had written a review on this previously, but I think it had a slightly different title (complete just so stories) so I'll write one for this particular title. I was given this book years ago, when my son was 3, by a friend of mine. He told me I should read the stories first and pick out the ones that I felt would be appropriate for my son, which I did. He loved the stories, particularly "how the rhinoceros got his skin," and I read it to him almost every night (we had been reading all Disney stories up until then). There were about 2 or 3 other stories in the book that we also read. It was wonderful and made him smile before going to sleep, always important! Yes, there are phrases, etc., in the book that are inappropriate, but Disney also has some pretty embarrassing things in their books, as well. Really. Read the things you intend to read to your children, and make decisions based on your perception of content. It's an excellent book, with some very excellent stories. My son still remembers that book, and still loves the stories. Because I sold the book when we moved, I purchased a new one for a friend just having a baby recently. As I was told years ago, I told her to read the stories first and find the ones that she liked, and felt were good for her child.Book Review: perennial favorite
Summary: 5 Stars
Kipling's delightful stories continue to enthrall a new generation. Lyrical, funny, packed with fanciful explanations for everything from the camel's hump to the elephant's trunk, they just beg to be read aloud and appeal to children of all ages. My three-year-old granddaughter loved the book so much, especially the story about the elephant's child, that I bought her a copy of her own for a fourth birthday present.
Other books recently enjoyed by the now four-year-old granddaughter (and suitable for older children as well) include Three Tales of My Father's Dragon and Mountains of the Moon.
Book Review: Way, Way Better Than I Ever Dreamed Of
Summary: 5 Stars
When I first bought this book, I thought it would be quite dull. Boy, was I wrong. I loved it from start to finish. Kipling shines as a a master humorist and storyteller, and through my reading of "Just So Stories" I never once had to stretch myself wondering why he was so popular in his day and why he won the Nobel Prize. His work speaks for itself.
I really likes his commentaries on his own pictures.
-"I should like to paint him with paint-box colours, but I am not allowed."
-"Pau Amma is trying to make a Magic, but he is only a silly old King Crab, and so he can't do anything."
-"It is all a magic picture, and that is one of the reasons why I haven't drawn the Jaguar's whiskers."
Absolutely wonderful.
Book Review: The Art of Story-telling lives on in this book
Summary: 5 Stars
These were many of my favorite stories as a child (and I'm medicare-ready now). Kiplings explanations of how things came to be are so much more imaginative and fun than the picture books of today. We have simplified reading to the point where it isn't really that much fun any more. As a teacher, I see so many aliterate young people: those who can read, but choose not to. Kipling is a great place to start reading for fun and information, even if the information is eventually discovered to be total and even ridiculous fiction. These stories stay in a child's memory.Book Review: Things Every Child Should Know
Summary: 5 Stars
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.