Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling (Classics Foundation)

The famous, funny, and inspiring stories of creation as readers have never heard them before.

From the tale of how the leopard got his spots to the crab who played with the sea, from the ingenious invention of the alphabet to how the rhinoceros got his wrinkled skin, these stories of strange happenings in the High and Far-Off Times brim with life, humor, and magic.

The graceful prose and pungent humor of these stories (which include favorites such as "How the Camel Got His Hump" and "The Elephants Child") place them in the same league with such childrens classics as Winnie the Pooh and Alice in Wonderland.

Kipling’s classic volume of stories concerns the great questions of history; How the Whale got his Throat, How the Camel got his Hump, How the Alphabet was Made and many other stories.

Listen to The Cat that Walked by Himself and you will never look at your own pet in quite the same way again.

The stories are meant for FUN, and all children deserve to have some.

There is humor and irony on many levels. In other words, everyone in your family can enjoy the stories.

Kipling is most known today for the Jungle Book.

Rudyard Kipling was the first English writer to win the Nobel Prize (not the Pulitzer) for literature, in 1907. Kipling is a master of the language. His writing is balanced and fluid.