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Children's Story

How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin

by Rudyard Kipling · read by Ian Michael Turrell · 6 min

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.

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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 to bathe, the Parsee fills it with cake crumbs. Rudyard Kipling's Just So Story about how the rhino got his wrinkled skin, read by Ian Michael Turrell. Six minutes. Fun to read aloud. It is a quick, funny story to read aloud at bedtime.

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Details

Length: 6 min
Narration: Solo narrator
Format: Unabridged audiobook
Released: January 2026
Publisher: Academy Voices
Language: English
ISBN: 9798295391972

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This edition of How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin by Rudyard Kipling is narrated by Ian Michael Turrell.

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