Just So Stories (Version 3): Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Just So Stories (Version 3), credited to Rudyard Kipling, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Just So Stories, by Rudyard Kipling. These whimsical short stories offer fanciful answers to a dozen of childhood's favorite "why" and "how" questions. With their generous sprinkling of nonsense words as well as a delightfully rhythmic storytelling feel, they seem to have been written to be read aloud. (summary by rachelellen)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Just So Stories (Version 3)
• Author credits: Rudyard Kipling
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 12
• Listed recording duration: 3:14:19

Catalogue topics

• children
• animals

Track guide

1. 01 - How the Whale got his Throat — 6:53
2. 02 - How the Camel got his Hump — 6:49
3. 03 - How the Rhinoceros got its Skin — 5:54
4. 04 - How the Leopard got his Spots — 13:15
5. 05 - The Elephant's Child — 16:33
6. 06 - The Sing-Song of Old Man Kangaroo — 8:19
7. 07 - The Beginning of the Armadillos — 16:49
8. 08 - How the First Letter was Written — 18:43
9. 09 - How the Alphabet was Made — 28:28
10. 10 - The Crab that Played with the Sea — 26:55
11. 11 - The Cat that Walked by Himself — 24:26
12. 12 - The Butterfly that Stamped — 21:18

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