The Beginning of the Armadillos

by Rudyard Kipling Narrated by Cathy Dobson

Overview

Kipling's classic tale taken from the Just So Stories. The stickly prickly hedgehog and the slow solid tortoise devise an exercise regime which will enable them to avoid becoming lunch for the painted jaguar. The effects surprise everyone, especially the painted jaguar.

Editorial Reviews

School Library Journal

K-Gr 6From the Just-So Stories comes this romp of a tale about how the hedgehog and the tortoise use language to muddle a young jaguar out of eating them. When they then understand that Mother Jaguar can't so easily be confused, they exert themselves to acquire each other's skills in swimming and in curling up. As a consequence of the hedgehog's soaking and the tortoise bending, they both mutate into new creaturesunidentifiable, but provisionally tagged ``armadillo.'' Rowe's whimsical paintings foreground the main players (and quite a few amusing walk-ons) against a series of arbitrarily ``evolving'' abstractions of quasi-Amazonian flora. The wit of the illustrations is equal to the cleverness of the text: both may appeal most to those sophisticated 3-year-olds and 30-somethings who appreciate the obfuscatory qualities of language and the mutabilities of identity.Patricia (Dooley) Lothrop Green, St. George's School, Newport, RI

Product Details

BN ID:	2940170532148
Publisher:	Red Door Consulting
Publication date:	02/24/2011
Edition description:	Unabridged
Age Range:	5 - 8 Years

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