The Just-So Stories

By Rudyard Kipling

"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 patent-leather ulster" (and by this he mean the Crocodile), "will jerk you into yonder limpid stream before you can say Jack Robinson"

The Just-So stories have been read to children all over the world ever since Kipling himself wrote them for his daughter at the turn of the 19th century.  With the advent of the technological age, many things have improved, but you still can't beat a good bedtime story.  The closest thing I could find on the web was a pitiful computer-speak audiobook, so I thought I should post my own.  I recorded these for my little brother:

How The Whale Got His Throat  ( 4 Mb wma) (Text file of the story)
How The Camel Got His Hump  ( 3 Mb wma) (Text file of the story)
How The Rhinoceros Got His Skin  ( 3 Mb wma) (Text file of the story)
How The Leopard Got His Spots  ( 7 Mb wma) (Text file of the story)
The Elephant's Child  ( 9 Mb wma) (Text file of the story)
The Sing-Song Of Old Man Kangaroo  ( 4 Mb wma) (Text file of the story)
The Beginning Of The Armadillos  ( 9 Mb wma) (Text file of the story)
The Crab That Played With The Sea  (pending) (Text file of the story)
The Cat That Walked By Himself  (12 Mb wma) (Text file of the story)
The Butterfly That Stamped  (pending) (Text file of the story)

Text files are thanks to Project Gutenberg.  
Literary genius is thanks to Rudyard Kipling (unfortunately I don't have his e-mail address)
Story-telling by Anthony Clohesy (that's me!) - Please let me know if you want these recordings for more than personal use.  

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