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Rudyard Kipling wrote the Just So Stories in 1902 for his daughter: funny, rhythmic tales of how animals got their trunks, humps and skins. We retell them in simple English, keeping his best-loved phrases.
Every story is read aloud in glowing paper-cut lightbox scenes.
3 stories · each one read aloud with subtitles · free
In the beginning of the world, a lazy Camel answers the Horse, the Dog and the Ox with nothing but “Humph!”, so they must do his work as well. The Djinn of All Deserts comes rolling in a cloud of dust, and when the Camel says “Humph!” once too often, his back puffs up into a great big hump.
Moral: The hump we get comes from having too little to do: idleness makes extra work for everyone, so do your share.
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A rude Rhinoceros upsets the Parsee's stove and eats his cake. Five weeks later the Parsee fills the Rhinoceros's skin with tickly cake-crumbs, and he scratches it into folds for ever.
Moral: Them that takes cakes which the Parsee-man bakes makes dreadful mistakes.
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Long ago, elephants had only short, bulgy noses, and one curious Elephant’s Child wanted to know what the Crocodile has for dinner. At the great grey-green, greasy Limpopo River the Crocodile caught him by the nose, and pulled and pulled until it stretched into the very first trunk.
Moral: Keep asking What and Where and When, and How and Why and Who: curiosity can lead to something wonderful.
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