THE ATHENAEUMJust So StoriesRudyard Kipling
Wonder
Just So Stories
Read it in the Library After Dark Or read it as plain textKipling told these to his own children, and you can hear it: the repetitions, the “O Best Beloved”, the pleasure in long words. How the Leopard got his spots, how the Elephant got his trunk, and The Cat that Walked by Himself, who still does.
The librarian
- Reading time
- About 2 hours
- Where to find it
- The attic behind the curious doors; The English Reading Room
- Edition
- Project Gutenberg, eBook #2781. In the public domain in the United States.