A Just so story / by Rudyard Kipling

Relates how the idle camel got a hump on his back.

Relates how the crab came to live both in the sea and on land and to lose its hard shell once a year.

Recounts how the cat managed to get what he wanted and still remain wild.

A butterfly and his wife help a mighty king control his quarreling wives.

Recounts how armadillos came to be in the Amazon jungle.

Relates how the greyish-yellowish-brownish leopard came by his spots.

Because of his "'satiable curtiosity" about what the crocodile has for dinner, the elephant's child acquired, and all elephants thereafter have had, a long trunk.