Rudyard Kipling’s classic stories are beautifully presented in this highly attractive edition enhanced with eight stunning colour illustrations by Chris Riddell as well as by Kipling’s own illustrations – including his most famous one of The Elephant’s Child. Kipling’s versions of how different animals have come by their characteristic- How the Leopard Got his Spots, How the Whale Got His Throat, The Cat that Walked By Itself and the others remains one of the best books to read aloud to any one from 5 upwards.
These stories, first published in 1902, are pourquoi stories: fantastic accounts of how various phenomena came about. A forerunner of these stories is "e;How Fear Came"e; in The Second Jungle Book (1895), in which Mowgli hears the story of how the tiger got his stripes.