Boris Karloff - the unmistakable voice - narrates these charming tales with the right amount of energy and dreaminess to take the hearer to the land of pure imagination and suspension of reality, if only for a few minutes.The stories are charming and funny, and Karloff's voice characterizations are sublime. He takes funny to giggles and laughter. This is a performance for children of all ages.The stories ar masterfully drawn with an art that defies description (by me anyway). Kipling's *Jungle Book* and *Kim* are so well known that they don't require my comment. He did win the Nobel Prize for Literature.I listened to these with my daughter when she was 5 - 9. We listened to them again and again. One cannot stay away for long.Highly recommended.