A Collection of Rudyard Kipling’s Just So Stories

In this sumptuous volume, eight of Kipling’s playful, inventive tales are brought to life by eight of today’s most celebrated illustrators, from Peter Sis’s elegantly graphic cetacean in “How the Whale Got His Throat” to Satoshi Kitamura’s amusingly expressive characters in “The Cat That Walked by Himself.” This collection of pourquoi tales is sure to please and delight curious children everywhere who wonder, “Why won’t cats come when they’re called?” and “How did the rhinoceros get his wrinkly skin?” First told aloud to his own daughter, Rudyard Kipling’s inspired answers to these and other burning questions draw from the fables he heard as a child in India and the folktales he gathered from around the world.

ISBN: 0763626295

PlainTales Comments: This is an excellent version of the Just So Stories, with a number of world class illustrators making contributions. Included are the stories The Elephant’s Child, How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin and The Cat That Walked By Himself, available in audio format in the PlainTales title Selected Just So Stories.