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    <body><![CDATA[Loved all the stories, but my personal favorite was about Elephant's Child.  Sometimes 'satiable curiosity doesn't kill you; it gets you a very practical appendage with which you can spank your bossy Relatives and hove them into a wasp's nest. And let's face it, O Best Beloved, we've all had that im...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17771921">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The book that made me fall in love with storytelling.  I still have my mother's hardbound edition, with marvelous color plates, published in the 20s.  Kipling may have been a romantic apologist for the British Empire, but the man knew how to weave a spell in children's stories, and he can be quite p...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/31391065">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[These are such fun to read out loud, and I particularly like the descriptions of the illustrations.<br/><br/>My favorites are:<br/><br/>&quot;How the Whale Got His Throat&quot;, featuring the small 'Stute Fish and the mariner of infinite-resource-and-sagacity wearing his suspenders (which you mu...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5734129">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Oct 06 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Kipling’s Just So Stories are timeless tales of “the beginning of years”, richly illustrated in words as much as pictures.  Kipling’s imitation of oral folklore traditions begs to be read aloud with words and phrases that roll off the tongue with a sound like the magic they invoke.  The narr...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49089409">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Sep 10 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[<strong>How The Kipling Got His Reputation</strong><br/><br/>Once upon a time, Best Beloved, when the world was middle-aged and good Queen Victoria sat on the throne, there was a Kipling. And even though he constantly had to carry around a White Man's Burden (an object, by the way, which he had invented himself, a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71634627">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Sep 24 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[For me, Just So Stories was extremely boring. i do appreciate the creativity and the originality of each story though. the main reason that i did not enjoy the book was because the stories were told in a very uninteresting way. the language used was very dull and it did not help in grabbing my atten...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52978528">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Dec 28 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I never actually read these as a kid. I remember having them read to me, but I never read them for myself. Which, as Phillip Pullman says in the introduction, is a shame, because they're wonderfully playful and easy to read, and even if there are words you don't understand (there weren't, for me now...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41664641">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="45742428">
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  <read_at>Sat Feb 07 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Sun Feb 08 11:18:47 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I was always disappointed that my book of creation stories by Rudyard Kipling did not include my favorites of his animal stories--Kotick the White Seal, Rikki-Tikki-Tavi, or Toomai of the Elephants. But, in trying to find public domain works to record for my independent research this semester (into ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45742428">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[as an awful contrast to real myths]]></recommended_for>
  <recommended_by><![CDATA[Kipling's own excellent short stories]]></recommended_by>
  <read_at>Fri Jun 26 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Fri Jun 26 01:07:54 -0700 2009</date_updated>
  <read_count>once, barely!!</read_count>
    <body><![CDATA[Anyone who addresses his stepdaughter as 'O my Best Beloved' just has to be putting it on!!!Or has a slight touch of the &quot;Lolitas&quot;!!<br/><br/>And the same goes for these very cutsie &quot;myths&quot; which are pretty trite when set against real myths where ancient peoples tried to explai...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/59234185">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="28013750">
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  <read_at>Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I cannot speak highly enough about these stories. I have been reading them to my kids since they were 3 years old and they never get tired of them. The language is rich and beautiful and a blast to read out loud. This book is an absolute must for your personal library.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Nov 09 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[นิทานเกี่ยวกับสัตว์เล่มนี้ เราก็ว่ามันเป็นนิทานสำหรับเด็กแท้ๆ แต่ท้ายเล่มมันรีวิวไว้ว่าเขียนเสียดสีสั...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77193404">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Rudyard Kipling swept me off my feet with these stories. It was the first time I've read Kipling since seventh-grade English class with Coach Durham, and I wonder now why I haven't returned sooner. (I should say &quot;I listened.&quot; I checked out the audio version read by rich baritone, Geoffrey ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41913177">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this to my son before he knew how to read.  He was, and still is, my best beloved. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is one of the best book that I read the whole year. I really like reading about animals and stories. This book has both of it for me. One of the advantage of these books is that they do not get boring talking about a single subject. It was also fun to read about how different animals have didnt...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/59677418">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[If you have never been to the great, grey, green, greasy Limpopo River, or heard the story of how writing came to be, or walked the wild lone, then, o, hear and attend and listen, o best beloved!  This collection of short stories is <em>magical</em>, with a kind of magic that keeps the world fresh and beauti...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65219762">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Kipling writes down stories that follow the oral storytelling tradition from third world cultures.  They are rich and relevent even today and contain messages both poignant and silly (often in the same tale).  <br/><br/>I checked this out of the library because it was the book for my &quot;polite ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/32210083">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Fun!]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was my favorite book when I was about 10.  I read it and re-read it until it started to fall apart, and I still have that falling apart copy because I loved it so much.  I find I still like the stories a lot.  The imagery and descriptions that Kipling uses makes me smile often. He has many clev...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46154136">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a childhood favorite. So many things to love about this collection of stories. For some reason, the Elephant's Child remains one of my very favorites, with lines that have a peculiar, but lasting resonance for me, including that when the E Child is going back home after acquiring his new tru...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47389145">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I first heard these stories from recordings of Boris Karloff played on the radio when I was a child, and actually never read these until my own child was 4, when &quot;The Elephant's Child&quot; became her favorite bedtime story . . . I read it every night for the ENTIRE summer before kindergarten. ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56190483">more...</a>]]></body>
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