Just So Stories (Classic Literature With Classical Music. Children's Favorites)

Kipling, Rudyard

ISBN 10 : 9626342501 ISBN 13 : 9789626342503

Editeur : Naxos AudioBooks, 2002

Synopsis

'I am the cat who walks by himself and all places are alike to me.' Here are the delightful stories which Kipling first told to his own children before setting them down on paper. How the Camel got his Hump, How the Leopard got his Spots, How the Elephant got his Trunk, the Butterfly that Stamped and many others. They remain unforgettable - magic fables told by a master of children's literature. To hear them - in their unabridged form as here - is to enjoy them in their original form. With delightful classical music from Dvorak and Janacek.

A propos du livre

Críticas :

And here they are, one of the many versions anyway. It's my favourite because while Johnny Morris and Toni Morrison are splendid tall story tellers, for me, best beloved, Geoffrey Palmer's dry dismissive take-it-or-leave-it tone hits the spot. 'How the Camel Got His Hump' and 'The Elephant's Child' are plain sailing, but 'The Cat That Walked By Himself' is as mystical as Mount Kailas. It needs careful attention, as indeed do clever cats spitting 'huh!' and 'nenni!' and walking by their wild lone. Definitely five stars. --Guardian

Biografía del autor :

Rudyard Kipling was born in Bombay in India on 30 December 1865. He was sent back to England when he was seven years old but returned to India in 1882 to work as the assistant editor of the Civil & Military Gazette in Lahore. He published poetry and stories in newspapers but it was the publication of Plain Tales from the Hills in 1888 that brought him his first major success. His most famous works are Barrack-room Ballads (1892), The Jungle Book (1894), Kim (1901), and Just So Stories (1902). The Just So Stories were written for his children and are addressed to his six-year-old daughter Josephine, his ‘best beloved’, who died of pneumonia in 1899. Rudyard Kipling died on 18 January 1936.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Naxos AudioBooks
• Date d'édition: 2002
• ISBN 10: 9626342501
• ISBN 13: 9789626342503
• Reliure: CD de audio
• Nombre de pages: 1