Publisher's Synopsis
Just So Stories for Little Children is a 1902 collection of origin stories by the British author Rudyard Kipling. Considered a classic of children's literature, the book is among Kipling's best known works. Just So Stories is a collection of Rudyard Kipling's animal tales in which we learn about 'How the Whale got his Throat', 'How the Camel got his Hump', 'How the Rhinoceros got his Skin', 'How the Leopard got his Spots', 'The Elephant's Child', 'The Sing-Song of Old Man Kangaroo', 'The Beginning of the Armadilloes', ' ...
When the whale ate all the fish, the little sly fish described to him all the charm of a human snack and told where to find it, but warned that the man is a restless creature. The whale swallowed the sailor along with his raft and suspenders. In the whale's stomach, the sailor began to run, jump, and generally behave very actively, so that the whale felt unwell. When he asked his prey to get out of his stomach, the sailor promised to think about it if the whale took him home to the white cliffs of Albion. Before going home, the guy inserted a whale into the throat with a grill made of raft boards and suspenders, so that he could only eat very, very small fish. And the sly fish swam away and hid in the mud, under the threshold of the equator, because she was afraid that the whale would get angry with her.
