Rudyard Kipling

Recounts how armadillos came to be in the Amazon jungle.

Presents the first volume of the classic short story collection with new illustrations, including such stories as "How the whale got his throat," and "The elephant's child."

King Midas enjoyed turning everything he touched to gold until he discovered that gold food was hard to eat and gold daughters cold to hug. Because of his "satiable curtiosity" about what the crocodile has for dinner, the elephant's child and all elephants thereafter have long trunks.