Rudyard Kipling

Presents the "Jungle Books," Rudyard Kipling's classic children's stories featuring such characters as Baloo the bear, Rikki-tikki-tavi the mongoose, and Mowgli, the boy raised by wolves, and includes an introduction, explanatory notes, and illustrations.

Rudyard Kipling's classic 'Just So' story, retold for young readers. According to this much-loved fable, elephants didn't always have long trunks, that is, until one day when the elephant's child could contain his curiosity no longer, stepping closer than he should have to the crocodile.

First published in 1888, Plain Tales from the Hills was Kipling's first volume of prose fiction. His vignettes of life in British India give vivid insights into Anglo-India at work and play, and into the character of the Indians themselves. Witty, wry, sometimes cynical, these tales with their brevity and concentration of effect are landmarks in the history of the short story as an art-form.

Recounts how the cat managed to get what he wanted and still remain wild.

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.