![]() ![]() ![]() Kipling s unforgettable cast of extraordinary animal characters is brought to life in stunning new illustrations by the award-winning illustrator Robert Ingpen. In this sumptuous volume, which includes the oftenmissing thirteenth story, The Tabu Tale (which Kipling added for the American edition in 1903). Conjuring up distant lands and exotic jungles, they are bewitching for both children and adults. 'The Beginning of the Armadillos' Tortoise and Painted Jaguar come across a new kind of creature in the woods and try to decide what it is with the help of Mother Jaguar. They give fantastical explanations for various phenomena. Rudyard Kipling first entertained his own children with these delightful, warm and humorous stories, which he later wrote down for publication in 1902. Just So Stories Just So Stories are considered some of Kipling's best works. Here too, we find out about the cunning cat that walked by itself, and how clever little Taffy and her Daddy Tegumai made the first alphabet. Of how the whale was given a throat, and why every rhinoceros has great folds in his skin and a very bad temper. Here is the story of how the lazy camel found himself with a hump and how the insatiable curiosity of the elephant earned him his long trunk. Published in 1915, this story is about a servant, Mary Postgate, who falls in love with Wynn, the son of the family for whom she works. ![]() So begins this classic collection of gloriously fanciful tales of how things in the world came to be as they are. ![]()
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