My mum bought me the book for my birthdae! Genuinely when someone doesn’t understand afterward its up to other people that they will help, so here it happens.|, nice story yea very gooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooood. Elephants have a positive symbolic meaning all over the world and are considered a symbol of good luck, power, success wisdom and experience. Then a new elephant came; one that was full of curiosity. Exposition: In the beginning, the elephant used to have no trunk. This story of the Elephants child was interesting. All over the elephant earth. But it was really the Crocodile, O Best Beloved, and the Crocodile winked one eye—like this! November 19th, 2006 at 9:28 am Then the Elephant’s Child grew all breathless, and panted, and kneeled down on the bank and said: “You are the very person I have been looking for all these long days. Yeats had a great interest in Irish mythology about faeries resulting in his publication of Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry in 1888 and Fairy Folk Tales of Ireland in 1892. Kipling began working on the book by telling the first three chapters as bedtime stories to his daughter Josephine. The sequence and activities suggested below could be spread over two or three lessons depending on the amount of detail you wish to go into. The physical strength and endurance of the elephant is tremendous. The characters were unique and engaging, and they would certainly keep children interesting in finding out what will happen next. it was good, and nice too. So, whether you are looking for a poem to read to your child or one for them to recite, we have it all covered. How to use poem in a sentence. And still he was full of satiable curtiosity! At times it is almost like a poem by Edward Lear. One dark evening he came back to all his dear families, and he coiled up his trunk and said, ‘How do you do?’ They were very glad to see him, and immediately said, ‘Come here and be spanked for your ‘satiable curtiosity.’. “It is,” said the Elephant’s Child, and before he thought what he was doing he schlooped up a schloop of mud from the banks of the great grey-green, greasy Limpopo, and slapped it on his head, where it made a cool schloopy-sloshy mud-cap all trickly behind his ears. Well done Great book Happy Birthday Tyler XX, […] you enjoy this story, you might also like The Elephant’s Child, also from the Just So […], How The Whale Got His Throat - Storynory free audio story — Like peace. It’s O.K for children I heard it when I was little I laughed my head off. I still have my script! "...the Elephant, O Best Beloved, had no trunk...But there was one Elephant--a new Elephant--an Elephant's Child--who was full of 'satiable curtiosity, and that means he asked ever so many questions " (Kipling 1). A little child, greatly fond of trains that pass under his window, is filled with wonder at their shape, speed, lights and restlessness. Many images on this site are licenced from Shutterstock. The elephant’s child is very curious and the whole story is centered on that fact. The first thing that he found was a Bi-Coloured-Python-Rock-Snake curled round a rock. one quick question can you make a pokemon story for me or is it not a fable? The just so story was interesting and nice.Great job!I hope I’ll read the others too.I hope I read all of them! The story was really interesting. I send them over land and sea, I send them east and west; But after they have worked for me, I give them all a rest. Already a member? I wish I could travel back in time to meet him we could all learn so much from him he also has a good humor ! by My Forever Child. He asked his tall uncle, the giraffe, what made his skin spotty, and his tall uncle, the giraffe, spanked him with his hard, hard hoof. And still he was full of ‘satiable curtiosity! He had only a blackish, bulgy nose, as big as a boot, that he could wriggle about from side to side; but he couldn’t pick up things with it. PLEASE , HELP ME. “Vantage number two!” said the bi-coloured-python-rock-snake. Elephant also uses wisdom, as she very intelligent, and thinks things through to all possible conclusions. “Scuse me,” said the Elephant’s Child most politely, “but have you seen such a thing as a crocodile in these promiscuous parts?”, “Have I seen a crocodile?” said the bi-coloured-python-rock-snake, in a voice of dreadful scorn: “What will you ask me next?”, “Scuse me,” said the Elephant’s Child, “but could you kindly tell me what he has for dinner?”. It is very interesting& I enjoyed it ! It’s sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo funny!!!!!!!!!!! ‘It is,’ said the Elephant’s Child, and before he thought what he was doing he schlooped up a schloop of mud from the banks of the great grey-green, greasy Limpopo, and slapped it on his head, where it made a cool schloopy-sloshy mud-cap all trickly behind his ears. I Keep six honest serving-men: (They taught me all I knew) Their names are What and Where and When And How and Why and Who. Posted in […], Notes on Jo « Tyndale Notes and Jottings — “But it’s very useful,” and he picked up his hairy uncle, the baboon, by one hairy leg, and hove him into a hornet’s nest. Happiness is bathing in the elephant river. Thanks. Now how do you feel about being spanked again?”, “Scuse me,” said the Elephant’s Child, “but I should not like it at all.”. i would not suggest you read this. Or Create a free Fairytalez account in less than a minute. ”Vantage number one!” said the bi-coloured-python-rock-snake. Alkurmah Falah Meshare tomorrow is exam this story 31 October 2017. Is this the website or my laptop? Oliphaunt (poem) Oliphaunt (poem) The name Oliphaunt refers to more than one character, item or concept. He is asking his mother about each train that passes by. Elephants hold a symbolic meaning in astrology, wherein, ‘elephant dreams’ are considered to have specific meanings. It is one of our favourite Storynories. Audio and texts are Copyright Storynory Ltd unless otherwise stated. It is about a baby elephant that got a new noes. And still he was full of satiable curtiosity! Storynory Ltd, 26 Star Street, London UK. But it never grew any shorter, and, besides, it made him squint. It seems to be a continuous pattern for him. And so these men of Hindustan Disputed loud and long, Each in his own opinion Exceeding stiff and strong, Though each was partly in the right And all were in the wrong. A male gorilla drum beats his chest, and the bonobo throws them some fruit. Why are the eyes of his broad aunt the hippopotamus so red? ‘But it’s very useful,’ and he picked up his hairy uncle, the Baboon, by one hairy leg, and hove him into a hornet’s nest. She sends ‘em abroad on her own affairs, From the second she opens her eyes— One million Hows, two million Wheres, And seven million Whys! He asked his tall aunt, the ostrich, why her tail-feathers grew just so, and his tall aunt the ostrich spanked him with her hard, hard claw. This is the way Bi-Coloured-Python-Rock-Snakes always talk. I bet you’ve worked really hard on this so I appreciate it. It was all his satiable curtiosity. It isn’t actually a folk tale. “It looks very ugly,” said his hairy uncle, the baboon. That is the way all Bi-Coloured-Python-Rock-Snakes always talk. This is an excellent story for young children reading quality children’s literature. I love to listen to your stories before bed… and I’m 26! Please write in English. i love this story soooooooooooooooooooooooo much!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This is a very creative, exciting, and entertaining explanation for the Elephant’s trunk. We all know it`s there. . Hi, please, oh please record more the The Just So Stories. And still he was full of ‘satiable curtiosity! When I was young my dad read ‘The Hobbit’ to me. This is a great example of traditional fantasy.The plot is very simple, as the Elephant desires to know what a crocodile has for dinner and the plot depicts how he finds out. It ia about a baby elephant. This is one of my favorite stories about animals. it was nice the story even the middle was my favourite part, I like this story very much.it is a nice story and amazing story. Hi, I’m back. Then he went away, a little warm, but not at all astonished, eating melons, and throwing the rind about, because he could not pick it up. Try and eat a little now.’. niceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE. Then that bad Elephant’s Child spanked all his dear families for a long time, till they were very warm and greatly astonished. interesting. And still he was full of satiable curtiosity! i liked this story i told it to my class and they loved it incredible congrats . I like it so did my little brother, I think this story is boring and not good. Your stories are amazing to share with kids in my family. I always read stories to my little brothers but this will surprise them. He pulled out his tall ostrich aunt’s tail-feathers; and he caught his tall uncle, the giraffe, by the hind-leg, and dragged him through a thorn-bush; and he shouted at his broad aunt, the hippopotamus, and blew bubbles into her ear when she was sleeping in the water after meals; but he never let any one touch Kolokolo bird. The rhythmic poems are short but contain a deep meaning, and hence help the child learn the language as well as understand the world. At last things grew so exciting that his dear families went off one by one in a hurry to the banks of the great grey-green, greasy Limpopo River, all set about with fever-trees, to borrow new noses from the Crocodile. Today is my birthday and I enjoy your story ,your the best story teller in the whole whide world. !<3, I study is the story in Taif of university in Saudi Arabia “It does,” said the Elephant’s Child. Tender, strong, silly and smart, elephants tug at our emotions and, perhaps, we at theirs. I appreciate how it keeps with the original oral tradition of fiction. . I am not a child but I found it very amusing! this was such an interesting story . When he wanted grass he plucked grass up from the ground, instead of going on his knees as he used to do. eval(ez_write_tag([[468,60],'storynory_com-box-3','ezslot_9',662,'0','0']));This masterpiece by the author of the Jungle Books is full of language that evokes Africa – the banks of the great grey-green, greasy Limpopo River, all set about with fever-trees. ‘Pooh,’ said the Elephant’s Child. I really feel sorry for the elephant it got spanked 10000000000000000 times! this story was kinda boring and babyish so i give it 1/100. He asked his tall uncle, the Giraffe, what made his skin spotty, and his tall uncle, the Giraffe, spanked him with his hard, hard hoof. When he felt lonely walking through Africa he sang to himself down his trunk, and the noise was louder than several brass bands. — i like this book a lot and heard it 7 times already, i love this book it is so intresting 4 childred 2 learn lol. For I am busy then, As well as … Then the Crocodile winked the other eye, and lifted half his tail out of the mud; and the Elephant’s Child stepped back most politely, because he did not wish to be spanked again. It made very good sence. That was gooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooood!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And the Elephant’s Child’s nose kept on stretching; and the Elephant’s Child spread all his little four legs and pulled, and pulled, and pulled, and his nose kept on stretching; and the crocodile threshed his tail like an oar, and he pulled, and pulled, and pulled, and at each pull the Elephant’s Child’s nose grew longer and longer–and it hurt him hijjus! One dark evening he came back to all his dear families, and he coiled up his trunk and said: “How do you do?” They were very glad to see him, and immediately said: “Come here and be spanked for your satiable curiosity.”. A child’s curiosity (Sifat ingin tahu kanak-kanak). This story was first read to me when I was in Primary School – we were learning alliteration, and quite frankly, what better example of alliteration could one find than ‘the great grey green greasy limpopo river, all set about with fever trees!’ Those words have stayed with me my whole life, and I reckon they’ll stay with me until I start to teach at Primary Schools too – I hope I can pass it on to them! It was a ok story I had found it a mousing and sort of funny and I like your expression, Your sorys have a lot off fun and all ways a happy ending, St Nicholsas primry school — I just saw a bit of symbolism in that. Why is his tall uncle the giraffe so spotty? I LOVE it VERY MUCH’!”!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!’!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!’!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!’!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Dramatic Irony: "The Bi-Colored-Python-Rock-Snake uncoiled himself very quickly from the rock and spanked the Elephants child with his scalesome, flailsome tail" (Kipling,2.) This book a was the best I have ever read in my entire life. . ‘Come hither, Little One,’ said the Crocodile. At the end of the third day a fly came and stung him on the shoulder, and before he knew what he was doing he lifted up his trunk and hit that fly dead with the end of it. About Kipling’s language, I wonder how “satiable” could be used with the meaning “insatiable.”. ‘It does,’ said the Elephant’s Child. It has several characteristics of a quality traditional fantasy, such as a simple, direct plot and lively language. And so, if it’s quite all the same to you, I don’t want to be spanked any more.”. We love your original stories as well as these classics. ‘I asked him what he had for dinner, and he gave me this to keep.’. Now how do you feel about being spanked again?’, ‘’Scuse me,’ said the Elephant’s Child, ‘but I should not like it at all.’. - ← I was reminded of and remembered most of this poem from my childhood a few years ago when the community band I play with performed a piece called "The Elephant and the Fly". The story was very interesting. And he lived in Africa, and he filled all Africa with his satiable curtiosities. ❤️, thank you for elephant movie it was incrediable who ever write this movie i like you lllllllllllllllllllllllllllllove you. You might enjoy Rikki -Tikki- Tavi by the same author. The meaning of an elephant is much deeper than one can imagine and has helped to shape the eastern world as we know it today. I am going to the great grey-green, greasy Limpopo River, all set about with fever-trees, to find out what the Crocodile has for dinner.’ And they all spanked him once more for luck, though he asked them most politely to stop. ugh…, This is a great story. Seems a bit of a weird reality to be polite. Got to play it for my little one …. Dear El, it sounds like a temporary problem withe the internet. The True Meaning of the Elephant. She knows her own strength, and confidently strides across the plains aware of her power. Before he thought what he was doing the Elephant’s Child put out his trunk and plucked a large bundle of grass, dusted it clean against his fore-legs, and stuffed it into his own mouth. When he wanted fruit to eat he pulled fruit down from a tree, instead of waiting for it to fall as he used to do. ‘Vantage number three!’ said the Bi-Coloured-Python-Rock-Snake. , that is really funny story love it love it, Me and my little brother loved this book it’s so funny, I loved it was funny Bertie plz make some more, I all most fell asleep it was that good please do way more your the best ever you are so better than the other girl Watch she is so lame but you my friend are the best one I have ever heard YOU’RE MY HERO GIRL :O, I love it so much i listened to it thrice, Dear Yusura we recorded this a long time ago but I remember how beautifully Natasha read it. I LOVE THIS BOOK IT’S MY MOMS FAVIORITE AND ACTULLY ALL MY FAMILY MEMBERS. In philosophy departments throughout the world, the Blind Men and the Elephant has become the poster child for moral relativism and religious tolerance. Will you please tell me what you have for dinner?’, ‘Come hither, Little One,’ said the Crocodile, ‘and I’ll whisper.’. Great story, I need to read these type of ones more often! ‘Come hither, Little One,’ said the Crocodile, ‘for I am the Crocodile,’ and he wept crocodile-tears to show it was quite true. To learning much inclined, Who went to see the Elephant (Though all of them … It was a very good story, and i learned much off it. This poem has remained my favorite throughout my adult life. January 26, 2015, P.S this storie is good i have read this book. Considered a classic of children's literature, the book is among Kipling's best known works. It is upbeat and yet there is a lesson to be learned. The Elephant In The Room- Poem. My children and I loved the way you presented the stories, the voices especially. I think that the authour made very good progres on doing his very famous work!!!! 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