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The author of The Jungle Book and the Just So Stories.
Rudyard Kipling was a British writer born in India, the author of The Jungle Book, the Just So Stories and The Man Who Would Be King, and the first English-language writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Kipling was born in Bombay in 1865 and sent to England for school at five, an unhappy time he wrote about later. At sixteen he returned to India as a newspaper reporter in Lahore, and his short stories about Anglo-Indian life made him famous in his twenties.
The Jungle Book (1894) gave the world Mowgli, Baloo, Bagheera and Shere Khan. The Just So Stories (1902) began as bedtime stories for his daughter Josephine, told in a playful voice that begs to be read aloud: How the Leopard Got His Spots, The Elephant's Child, The Cat That Walked by Himself. In 1907 he won the Nobel Prize. Some of his views on empire are hard to read today, and they are part of his story too.
I am the Cat who walks by himself, and all places are alike to me.
The Jungle Book
Mowgli, Baloo and Bagheera as Kipling wrote them. Our most-played Kipling.
5 hr 18 min · read by Nathan Edwards 
Just So Stories
Bedtime stories about how animals got their spots, humps and trunks.
3 hr 2 min · read by Brian Pederson 
The Man Who Would Be King
Two adventurers who set out to rule a kingdom of their own.
51 min · read by Aubrey Parsons 
Narrated by Paul Landergan
The Viceroy of India has a private secretary who cannot stop interfering, and a mix-up over two similar names puts an inventor in the wrong chair at lunch. The inventor h...
Narrated by Paul Landergan
Three newspapermen share a small tramp steamer on a slow voyage from Cape Town to England. One is American, one is a burly Dutch editor, and one is the narrator. They are...
Narrated by Jamie Rodriguez
Long ago in Africa, the Leopard lived on the sandy yellow High Veldt, among the giraffe, the zebra and the eland. They were all the same colour as the sand. When the anim...
Narrated by Ian Michael Turrell
On an island in the Red Sea, a Parsee man bakes a cake. A rhinoceros comes along and eats it, and the Parsee never forgets. Later, when the rhinoceros takes off his skin...
Narrated by Richard Stibbard
The Whale, in the beginning, ate everything in the sea. Then one day he meets a Mariner on a raft and swallows him whole. The Mariner is clever. He starts to jump and dan...
Narrated by Brian Pederson
How did the camel get his hump? How did the leopard get his spots, and the elephant his long trunk? These stories give playful, made-up answers, told to a child called Be...
Narrated by Richard Stibbard
Long ago, in the days of the cave people, a little girl named Taffy and her father, Tegumai, are fishing. Taffy is clever and bold, and one day she has an idea no one had...
Narrated by Eric A Grimes
Taffy and her father, Tegumai, live long ago. When Tegumai loses his spear, Taffy draws a picture message to her mother to send for another. The picture goes wrong. A cha...
Narrated by Greg Cooper
An elephant goes on strike when his mahout vanishes, unleashing comic chaos and unexpected heart. Greg Cooper’s lively narration brings Kipling’s classic tale of loyalty...
Narrated by Michael Lyons
A traveler in India stops for the night at an empty rest house. After dark he hears a game of billiards going on in a room that should be empty, with the click of balls a...
Narrated by Richard Stibbard
The Painted Jaguar is hungry and cannot catch the little Armadillo. Mother Hedgehog and Tortoise teach their son how to be safe, and a mix-up leaves him confused. The res...
Narrated by Estelle Belong-Smrtnikova
Suleiman-bin-Daoud, the wisest of kings, has nine hundred and ninety-nine wives, and one very clever favorite named Balkis. When a butterfly stamps his foot, a great deal...
Narrated by Tony J Martin
Long ago all the wild animals were wild, and the Cat was the wildest of all. He walked by himself, and all places were alike to him. Then the Woman made a cave comfortabl...
Narrated by Susie Hackel
At the beginning of the world, there is a giant Crab named Pau Amma who plays with the sea, and the sea goes up and down. The Eldest Magician and the Man are drawn into t...
Narrated by Richard Stibbard
The Elephant's Child is full of 'satiable curtiosity. He wants to know what the crocodile has for dinner, and he is spanked for asking. So he goes to the banks of the gre...
Narrated by Nathan Edwards
Kipling’s classic roars to life as Mowgli learns the Law of the Jungle and Rikki-Tikki-Tavi battles cobras—brought to you in a vivid, family-friendly performance by Natha...
Narrated by Ken Kowalik
A cavalry squadron rides out at night to arrest tribesmen in a fortified village high in the Afghan hills. In the dark the troopers stumble among small piles of stones, l...
Narrated by Aubrey Parsons
Two English adventurers in India, Daniel Dravot and Peachey Carnehan, make a pact: they will travel to remote Kafiristan, make themselves kings and become rich. A newspap...
Narrated by Phil Thames
Gathered at a banquet table, a speaker proposes a last toast: to the Native-born, the sons and daughters of the colonies. The poem drinks to them one by one, and to the l...
Narrated by Paul Landergan
Long ago, Kangaroo was an ordinary small animal with four short legs. One day he asked the Big God Nqong to make him different from all the other animals. One of Rudyard...
Narrated by Matthew Guldner
A fearless child in colonial Simla upends a land bill with streetwise wisdom. Kipling’s witty satire comes alive in Matthew Guldner’s engaging narration.
Narrated by Tony J Martin
Wee Willie Winkie is six years old and the son of a colonel in British India. His real name is Percival William Williams, but the soldiers named him for the nursery rhyme...
Narrated by John Myers
Amid a South Indian famine, fearless “William” Martyn and a tireless engineer fight to save lives—and find love. Kipling’s vivid two-part classic, brought to life by John...
Born in Bombay, India.
Returns to India as a journalist in Lahore.
The Jungle Book.
Kim.
Just So Stories.
Wins the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Dies in London.
The Jungle Book, the Just So Stories, Kim and poems such as If.
Yes. Ours is Kipling's own text, which is quite different from the films.
The Just So Stories. They were written as bedtime stories for his daughter.
Academy Voices has 23 Rudyard Kipling audiobooks, each performed by a real narrator, with a free sample on every one. Every recording is Certified Human Voice.
Reviewed October 2026 by the Academy Voices team. Sources: Wikipedia, Wikidata .
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