Just So Stories Author:Rudyard Kipling Here are Kipling's famous and inspired Just So stories, which tell of strange and magical happenings in the High and Far-Off Times. From the tale of the 'satiable little Elephant's Child on the banks of the great grey-green, greasy Limpopo and the beginning of the Armadilloes in the turbid Amazon, to the disobedient Crab that played with the sea... more »; from the story behind the very first letter ever written, to the ingenious invention of the alphabet, this wonderful collection by one of the greatest story-tellers of all time will hold you spellbound.
Brimming with humour and vitality, these stories, illustrated by Kipling himself, are as fresh and captivating today as when they first appeared in 1902.« less