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Written by Rudyard Kipling - Audio book performed by Boris Karloff & Anthony Quayle - Unabridged Fiction Stories - 4 CASSETTES - 4.5 hours

Publisher, Harper Audio (August 2001)

"If you have children, use it as an excuse to buy [this recording], which you will enjoy immensely." --The Atlantic Monthly

Everyone knows Rudyard Kipling's animals are the ones most worth knowing anywhere. This collection -- beautifully performed by Boris Karloff -- includes Kipling's Just So Stories (where we meet the animals when the world was new -- so new, in fact, that the Rhinoceros had not yet lost his buttons!) and stories from his timeless classic, The Jungle Book.

Stories included from :

How the Whale Got His Throat
How the Camel Got His Hump
How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin
How the Leopard Got His Spots
The Elephant's Child
The Sing-Song of Old Man Kangaroo
The Beginnings of the Armadillos
How the First Letter Was Written
How the Alphabet Was Made
The Crab that Played with the Sea
The Cat That Walked by Himself
The Butterfly That Stamped

Stories included from The Jungle Book:

Mowgli's Brothers
How Fear Came
Toomai of the Elephants
The Shiv and the Grasshopper

About the Author: Rudyard Kipling(1865-1936), recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907, was an English novelist, short-story writer, and poet. His sweeping tales of adventure, including Kim, Captains Courageous, and The Jungle Book, won him wide popularity during his lifetime and have been beloved by generations.