<p>These witty stories were originally told by Rudyard Kipling to his own children. In them he gives fanciful accounts of how and why things came to be as they are.</p>
<p>Generations of children have delighted to learn 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 the beginning of the Armadillos.</p>
<p>Beautifully illustrated in black-and-white by the author, these delightful tales will hold the reader and listener spellbound.</p>
Paperback / softback | 144 pages | Published January 1993
