Author of Audiobooks - Rudyard Kipling

In 1915, as the "Great War" (World War 1) entered its second year Rudyard Kipling made a journalistic tour of the front, visiting French armed forces. By then he was already winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature (the first writer in English to be...

The Just So Stories for Little Children are among Kipling's best known and loved works. This recording aims to be the first complete audio book of this title with nothing left out. The Nobel prize-winning author's enjoyment in playing with the...

This poem about a child's inquisitiveness, follows the short story The Elephant's Child in Rudyard KIpling's Just So Stories. (1902) - Summary by David Lawrence...

Rudyard Kipling was the first English recipient of the Nobel Prize in literature and the youngest at the time to be so rewarded. His children’s stories and poems have been enduring expressions of his times, many tied to India, the country of his...

Rudyard Kipling was the first English recipient of the Nobel Prize in literature and the youngest at the time to be so rewarded. His children’s stories and poems have been enduring expressions of his times, many tied to India, the country of his...

From the Just So Stories of Rudyard Kipling Download the audio story here. The young elephant hero is full of questions. Why is his tall uncle the giraffe so spotty? Why are the eyes of his broad aunt the hippopotamus so red? Above all, he wants to...

Download Rikki-tikki-tavi Part Two We left our courageous little hero at a very dangerous moment at the end of the First Part of Rikki-tikki-tavi. We conclude Rudyard Kipling's classic tale of the Indian Mongoose who defends an English family from...

Download Rikki-tikki-tavi This exciting and touching story is from the fabulous Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling. It's not one of his more famous Mowgli tales, but is all about a brave mongoose. A mongoose is an animal that looks a little bit like a...

Download the audio (Right Click, Save As) You can't beat a story that has an animal hero who is both intelligent and courageous. The White Seal is an absolute classic of that genre. Kipling's tale has a very modern theme - it highlights the way in...

Most domestic or farm animals have to earn their place by the fire. Kipling's short story (from the Just So Stories) tells us why cats can drink milk from a bowl AND live a semi-wild life by themselves. It takes us back to the time when people lived...

Download the audio, (Right Click, Save As) This is one of the wonderful Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling. It explains why a huge mammal - the whale - can only eat the smallest things. The story is full of Kipling's love of words and sounds, and...

We conclude the story of The White Seal from the Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling (Part One is here). The White Seal has gone in search of the Sea Cow who can tell him of a special place where no humans visit. It is only in such a sanctuary that the...

Kipling’s ‘Just So story from when the world was very new tells how the grumpy, idle camel turned his ‘humph’ into a ‘hump.’ The moral of the story is that not having enough to do makes people (and animals) grumpy. As we mention in the introduction,...

Why does the tide come in and out? Scientists might tell you it has something to do with the laws of gravity and the orbit of the moon. Of course it is true that there is a Fisher of the Moon who pulls in and lets out tide. But at the very...

The Just So Stories by Kipling (who also wrote the Jungle Book) tell us so many interesting things - and in this story we learn how the Leopard got his spots - and why a Leopard can never change his spots. (We have slightly adapted the story at the...

There are so many questions that Kipling answered for us, and this is one of the most interesting - how rhinoceroses became so wrinkly and so bad tempered. Read by Richard Scott. HOW THE RHINOCEROS GOT HIS SKIN Hello, This is Richard, and I’m here...

Mowgli boy in jungles with different plants and lianas, watercolor paintings By Rudyard Kipling Hello, This is Richard, and I’m going to be reading from the famous Mowgli chapters from the Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling. They tell the tale of a...

Storynory presents, The Jungle Book, Mowgli’s Brothers, Part Four. Read by Richard. Edited by Jana. Hello, this is Richard, and I’m here with the fourth part of the Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling. This episode will conclude the chapter called...

Storynory presents, The Jungle Book, Mowgli’s Brothers, Part Three. Read by Richard. Edited by Jana. Hello, this is Richard, and I’m here with the third part of the Jungle Book. Mowgli the mancub has been accepted by the wolf pack and grown up to be...

Storynory presents, The Jungle Book, Mowgli’s Brothers, Part Two. By Rudyard Kipling Read by Richard Scott Edited by Jana Elizabeth Hello, This is Richard, and I am here with the second episode of the Jungle Book, by Rudyard Kipling. Last time we...

Storynory Presents THE JUNGLE BOOK Part five By Rudyard Kipling Read by Richard Scott Edited by Jana image adobe stock / Landscapes by Дар'я Ющук Hello, this is Richard, and we are starting the Chapter of the Jungle Book which is called Kaa’s...

Read by Richard Scott Edited by Jana Dedicated to Rory in Canada Storynory Presents THE JUNGLE BOOK Part 7 And we are delighted to dedicate this story to Rory in Canada, whose family supports Storynory on Patreon. And to help you to understand the...

Storynory Presents THE JUNGLE BOOK Part Six Read by Richard Edited by Jana By Rudyard Kipling Hello, this is Richard And I’m continuing with the Jungle Book - and the Chapter called Kaa’s Hunting. Mowgli the man-cub has been kidnapped by the...

Read by Richard check out his Sk8oetry Edited by Jana Dedicated to Finn and Orlo Hello, this is Richard and I’m here with another episode of the Jungle book. Mowgli has been kidnapped by the Monkey People, the Bandar-Log. Bagheera the black pantha,...

Barrack-Room Ballads is a collection of poems by Rudyard Kipling which describe life in the British Army, particularly in India, in his time. The poems are written in the voice and language of soldiers of that time. The collection includes some of...