Just so stories

Author

Kipling, Rudyard

1) The beginning of the armadilloes

Author

Kipling, Rudyard

2) The butterfly that stamped

Author

Kipling, Rudyard

Series

Just so stories

Publisher

Bedrick

Pub. Date

©1982

Language

English

Description

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A butterfly and his wife help a mighty king control his quarreling wives.

3) The cat that walked by himself

Author

Kipling, Rudyard

4) The crab that played with the sea

Author

Kipling, Rudyard

Series

Just so stories

Publisher

Distributed in the USA by Harper & Row

Pub. Date

1983

Language

English

Description

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Relates how the crab came to live both in the sea and on land and to lose its hard shell once a year.

5) The elephant's child

Author

Kipling, Rudyard

Series

Just so stories

Language

English

Formats

Book, Spoken CD

Description

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Because of his "satiable curiosity" about what the crocodile has for dinner, the elephant's child and all elephants thereafter have long trunks.

6) The sing-song of Old Man Kangaroo

Author

Kipling, Rudyard

7) How the rhinoceros got his skin

Author

Kipling, Rudyard

Series

Just so stories

Language

English

Description

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Relates how the rhinoceros's lack of manners resulted in his baggy skin and bad temper.

8) How the whale got his throat

Author

Kipling, Rudyard

Series

Just so stories

Publisher

P. Bedrick Books

Pub. Date

1987

Language

English

Description

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Relates how a clever little fish and a mariner of "infinite-resource-and-sagacity" modify the whale's throat to keep him from devouring all the fish in the ocean.

9) How the camel got his hump

Author

Kipling, Rudyard

Series

Just so stories
Rabbit Ears books

Language

English

Description

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When the world was new, the camel, a creature of 'scruciating idleness, said "Humph!" too often and received for all time a hump[h] from the Djinn of All Deserts.