Complete and Unabridged The Elephant"s Child, 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 Sing-Song of Old Man Kangaroo, The Beginning of the Armadillos, How the First Letter Was Written, How the Alphabet Was Made, The Crab That Played with the Sea, The Cat That Walked by Himself, The Butterfly That Stamped, Afterword, Further Reading, Biography Стильно оформленное подарочное издание в суперобложке, с трехсторонним золотым обрезом и шелковым ляссе. These twelve magical stories tell, among other things, how the camel got his hump, the leopard his spots, the elephant his trunk, how the alphabet was made and how a butterfly caused mayhem at the court of King Solomon when he stamped. Charles Darwin might not have appreciated Kipling"s distinctly odd view of the evolutionary process, but he would have been enchanted by the magic, the incantations, the language and Kipling"s own illustrations that make "Just So Stories" one of the few enduring classics of children"s literature.