Kipling, Rudyard

Heralding the arrival of one of England's great literary geniuses, this story of Dick Heldar, the young artist who went blind before he could complete a masterpiece, is perhaps one of the best known and most loved of modern classics.

Twelve short stories, most of which tell how such things as the alphabet, the camel's hump, and the elephant's trunk came to be.

Just So Stories creates the enchantment of the beginning of the world when animals could talk and think like people.

In India, a mongoose who is saved from a storm by a British boy and his parents, becomes the family's defender against the dreaded cobras, Nag and Nagina. Includes a bonus story in which Chester the cricket, Tucker the mouse, and Harry the cat share their version of the events of the Revolutionary War.