Just so stories /
written and illustrated by Rudyard Kipling ; [with a foreword by Janet Taylor Lisle].
- 1st Aladdin Paperbacks ed.
- New York : Aladdin Paperbacks, 2002.
- xvi, 180 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
- Aladdin classics. .
"Includes reading group guide"--Cover. First published in 1902.
How the whale got his throat -- How the camel got his hump -- How the rhinoceros got his skin -- How the leopard got his spots -- The elephant's child -- The sing-song of Old Man Kangaroo -- The beginning of the armadillos -- How the first letter was written -- How the alphabet was made -- The crab that played with the sea -- The cat that walked by himself -- The butterfly that stamped.
Twelve stories about animals, insects, and other subjects.
All ages.
0689851251 (pbk.)
2̀001096354
Children's stories, English. Animals--Fiction. Short stories, English. Fables.