Publisher's Synopsis
The funny stories that make up this book, like fables, are the stories that Rudyard Kipling told his beloved daughter Josephine every night. Since its publication, generations of children have enjoyed listening to and reading these stories, as ingenious as they are improbable, about the things that really interest the little ones - and not so little ones - of insatiable curiosity, such as why the leopard has spots on the skin, or how the trunk came out of the son of the elephant and the dromedary his hump ...Rudyard Kipling was the first English-language writer to be awarded the Nobel Prize in 1907. It is precisely like this, together with The Jungle Book and Kim -also published in this collection-, three classics of children's literature are considered and youthful.
