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Kipling’s classic tale taken from the Just So Stories. How a butterfly's dispute with his wife catches the attention of a sultan, who in solving the insect's dilemma, manages to sort out a problem of his own too.

Boris Karloff, Raymond Massey and Christopher Hassall read a selection of Rudyard Kipling's finest short stories and poetry. Also included in this celebration is Kipling himself giving a speech to a group of Canadian authors and reflecting on war.

Why does the giraffe have spotty skin? Why do melons taste just so? An insatiably curious young elephant can't stop asking questions, until one in particular gets him into worse trouble than he could have ever imagined.

The poor elephant's child, always in trouble for his insatiable curiosity, ventures to the banks of the great grey-green Limpopo River to find the answers to his very important question: "What do crocodiles have for dinner?" The answer may be more than he can handle!

Here's a humorous collection of stories by Rudyard Kipling, the man behind the much-loved Just So Stories. "The Elephant's Child" tells the charming story of a baby elephant whose curiosity gets the best of him, while "The Cat Who Walked by Himself" tells the fanciful story of a cat who lived during a time when men lived in caves and all animals were wild.

This is a selection from Kipling's The Second Jungle Book.

This is a selection from the "just so" stories. Just So Stories for Children is a collection of highly fantasized origin stories that are among Kipling's best known and, arguably, best works.

Kipling was a British author and poet, born in India. He is best known for the many children's tales, his Indian spy novel Kim (1901), a number of poems, and many short stories. This gentle supernatural story is one of his best.

This second volume of poetry for Mother's Day further explores that key relationship with our Mother through the verse of many of our greatest poets. The relationship with our Mother is one of the most powerful many of us will ever feel. It rivals those with our children and partners in a way that both permeates and challenges how and on what terms we live our lives. A woman giving birth is not only bringing life into the World, she is doing so, usually, at great pain to herself.

The role of Fathers has changed much over the course of centuries. Men are now better suited to a role of co-parent in this modern age rather than the stilted, slightly aloof figure of times past. Being a Father is, of course, both a blessing and a burden. This modern day parenting in a frenetic fast changing world has to be both learnt and adapted from some inner well of memory from generations past as well as on the job experience.

Classic Love Stories 2 read by Joanna David & Edward Fox. Wonderful readings of stories centred around the theme of love, including works by classic writers like Rudyard Kipling and John Galsworthy.

Harvey Cheyne is the pampered son of a multimillionaire who falls off an ocean liner and is rescued by a small fishing boat. After being punched in the nose by the captain of the vessel for smart-mouthing him, Harvey quickly learns respect, toughness, and gratitude. He steps up from self-centeredness into the difficult but fulfilling realm of self-reliance and unselfishness.

While spending the night in an eerie, decrepit, old bungalow in late 19th-century India, the narrator tells how he begins to hear the unmistakable sounds of a billiard game in the locked adjoining room. It's a room that was once a billiard-room where one of the sahibs is said to have died in the midst of a game... and is believed to have become a ghost.

"How the Whale Got His Throat", "The Elephant's Child", "How the Leopard Got His Spots", "How the Alphabet Was Made" and "The Butterfly That Stamped" are just a few of these enchanting tales of the dawn of the world.

Included in this varied collection are: Charles Dickens' "The Magic Fishbone", Aesop's "The Country and the Town Mouse"' and "The Lion and his Counsel", Rudyard Kipling's "The Elephant's Child" and "Rikki-tikki-tavi", Hans Christian Andersen's "The Emperor's New Clothes" and "The Ugly Duckling", Juliana Ewing's "Our Field", and Flo Gibson's "Clementina Quite Contrary".

Som spæd blev Mowgli fundet af Shere Khan, tigeren med de lynende øjne, og opdrages af ulvene efter Jungleloven. Han lærer at jage og tale dyrenes sprog. Han oplever mange spændende ting og møder de uforglemmelige dyr: Bagheera, den yndefulde sorte panter, Baloo, den venlige brune bjørn, og Kaa, slangen med det hypnotiske blik. Mowgli er et menneske, og mens han vokser op, bliver det klart for ham, at han er nødt til at finde tilbage til sin egen art. Men først må han møde sin evige fjende Shere Khan.

Yksi hylkää lapsensa päiväkotiin sulkemisajan jälkeen, toinen tekee samoin Intian viidakossa - jättäen lapsensa tiikerin, karhun ja suden hoiviin. Rudyard Kiplingin klassikko Viidakkokirja on kertomuskokoelma intialaisesta Mowgli-pojasta, joka kasvaa viidakossa villieläinten parissa. Tästä asetelmasta nousee myös kirjan teema: millaista on tulla hylätyksi ja tämän jälkeen muiden, tässä tapauksessa villieläinten, ylösnostamaksi - teema, jonka monet voivat lukea kaikuna kirjailijan omasta lapsuudesta. Mowgli oppii kuitenkin selviytymään viidakossa luonnonlakien ehdoilla.

Puck della Collina di Pook è un romanzo, scritto nel 1906, che racconta l'iniziazione di due bambini, un maschio e una femmina, ai misteri che hanno presieduto alla costruzione del Regno d'Ighilterra.

Rudyard Kipling ist vielen Leuten als Verfasser des Dschungelbuchs ein Begriff, doch auch die Prosa des jüngsten Literatur-Nobelpreisträgers aller Zeiten zieht den geneigten Zuhörer schnell in ihren Bann. "Wressley vom Auswärtigen Amt" beschreibt eindrucksvoll, dass ein zu starkes Identifizieren mit einem Gegenstand in Sackgassen enden kann. In "Ad acta zu legen" überrascht uns ein leidenschaftlicher Säufer mit ungewöhnlichem Intellekt.

Rudyard Kipling ist vielen Leuten als Verfasser des Dschungelbuchs ein Begriff, doch auch die Prosa des jüngsten Literatur-Nobelpreisträgers aller Zeiten zieht den geneigten Zuhörer schnell in ihren Bann. "Der Bisara von Pooree" rät zur Vorsicht vor metaphysischen Gegenständen, die man nicht versteht. "Meines Freundes Freund" beweist, dass ein schlechter Freund einem mehr Schaden zufügt als der schlimmste Feind. "Das Tor der hundert Leiden" handelt von einem Opiumraucher, der seine Drogenkarriere Revue passieren lässt.