These witty stories were originally told by Rudyard Kipling to his own children. In them he givesfanciful accounts of how and why things came to be as they are.
Generations of children have delighted tolearn how the Leopard got his spots, how the Elephant's Child on the banks of the great grey-green Limpopo acquired his trunk with the help of the Crocodile, and of the beginning of Armadillos.
Beautifully illustrated in black-and-white by the author, these delightful tales will hold the readerand listener spellbound.
