A conversation about children's stories over on the bird site made me try to think what my dad read to me and the first things that came to mind were Aesop's Fables and Uncle Remus / Br'er Rabbit. The others were referencing Where the Wild Things Are and Cat in the Hat and similar.
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I am olding it seems, right before my very eyes.
@FireMonkey The “Just So” stories were my dad’s favorite. I am old, but not “geologic time” old.
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Well of course they were. I went and looked it up. And Gutenberg has them available:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2781
@FireMonkey @cassandra17lina Kipling's "Just So Stories" was the basis for the Disney film "The Jungle Book." They were a series of wildly improbable tales set in the jungles of tropical India, a British colony at the time.
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Were the Just So stories by Kipling?
I have a vague memory of them.