Hörbuch         Just So Stories

	Just So Stories von Rudyard Kipling und Geoffrey Palmer Hörkassette 01. März 2002 Verlag: Naxos Audiobooks Kommentare und Bewertungen: Excellent! For ALL children - of All ages! I was fortunate enough to have been given a copy of this book, and the accompanying 33rpm record for my 6th birthday. It was to turn out as one of the 'Landmarks" in my reference to life. Almost half a century later, I use the stories for the Grandkids, and as a reminder: He who takes the cakes That the Parsee man makes, Makes dreadful mistakes! It is not possible to recommend this book as a higher value, with the obvious exception of The Holy Bible. Fanciful and Imaginative My mother and I used to read the Just So Stories to each other when I was a child, and I have very fond memories of both the story, and the time spent with my mother reading these stories. Over the years, the book was lost, and I was excited to purchase it and received it recently. My favorite story is The Cat That Walked By Himself, and that was the first story I turned to when I received the book. I think every parent should buy this book to read to his or her child. Just So-So Rudyard Kipling was not a great writer, but he was a pretty good story-teller, as this collection makes clear. His sentiments, however, are hopelessly mawkish, cloyingly middle-class and really very racist. To put in another way, Kipling was very much a man of his times and background, an Anglo-Indian, fiercly pro-Empire and anti-wog. His stories, especially those made familiar to us by Walt Disney, are quite charming and still stand up to a quick read at bedtime. It perhaps most telling of Kipling's career that he was a celebrity on an international scale, and won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1907, but is now best remembered for movies starring Shirley Temple and Sabu.

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