Adaptations of Kipling's Just So Stories explained

Many adaptations of Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories have been made in various countries, as cartoons, musicals and a children's opera.

Cartoons

A 1936 black and white Soviet cartoon of How the Whale Got His Throat.^[1]
A 1938 black and white Soviet cartoon of How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin.^[2]
The Elephant's Child was twice made into a Soviet cartoon by the Soyuzmultfilm studio, in 1936 (^[3]) and in 1967 (^[4]).
The Cat Who Walked by Himself, a Soviet drawn animation screen version created by Aleksandra Snezhko-Blotskaya at Soyuzmultfilm studio in 1968.^[5]
A 1981 stop-motion adaptation of The Beginning of the Armadillos by the Soyuzmultfilm studio.^[6]
A 1983 Marble Arch/Interama/Strengholt Films cel-animated series Just So Stories, adapted from a collection of ten children's stories created by Sheila Graber.^[7]
A 1984 Kyinaukfilm stop-motion adaptation of How the First Letter Was Written.^[8]
The Cat Who Walked by Herself, a 1988 Soviet stop-motion animated feature film based on "The Cat that Walked by Himself" from a film studio Soyuzmultfilm.^[9]
Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories, a 1992 British animated compilation of twelve of Rudyard Kipling's classic tales, created by Bevanfield Films and BBC, and directed by Timothy Forder.
Just So Stories, a French-British animated co-production from Les Films de L'Arlequin and Je Suis Bien Content and France 3 was produced in 2008.

Samuil Marshak's Russian translation of the final poem from The Beginning of the Armadillos was made into a song by Viktor Berkovsky and Moris Sinelnikov.^[10] The song became popular after performances by the duet of Sergey Nikitin and Tatyana Nikitina.^[11]

The Elephant's Child was made into a children's opera by Daron Hagen in 1996, for the Kings Singers.