Other fables include "How the Camel Got His Hump," "How the Whale Got His Throat," "How the Leopard Got His Spots," "How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin," and five others. "The Cat That Walked by Himself" offers a beguiling description of the special relationship between cats and those they allow to shelter them. "The Elephant's Child" reveals how pachyderms came by their trunks, and "The Sing-Song of Old Man Kangaroo" discloses the origins of that creature's unique anatomy. This new unabridged edition contains all 12 of these imaginatively conceived tales from a master storyteller. Generations of children have delighted to Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories and their whimsical explanations for the reasons behind certain animals' distinctive physical characteristics. An unabridged 2001 republication of the 1902 original, removed from the Oak Meadow 2nd Grade Curriculum on 11/17/20.
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