How did the rhinoceros get his wrinkly skin? Why won't cats come when they're called? How did one curious elephant with a nose for trouble change the lives of all elephants everywhere? This title includes eight stories which give answers to these and other intriguing questions. Each story is illustrated by a contemporary picture-book artist.

Presents the tales of whales and cats and kangaroos and crabs. This book includes stories ranging from how the camel got in a humph (and got his hump!) to how the alphabet was invented.

This edition of the poetry of Rudyard Kipling contains all of his verse. His poetry uses many rhythms and popular forms of speech, ranging from dramatic monologues to extended ballads. Often mistakenly branded as a fascist, Kipling's attitudes changed over the years, revealing a darker side.

Saved from the jaws of the evil tiger Shere Khan, young Mowgli is adopted by a wolf pack and taught the law of the jungle by lovable old Baloo the bear and Bhageera the panther. This is a story of friendship between man and beast.

Classic tales of Rudyard Kipling

From the moment a little naked cub wanders into the lair of Father Wolf and Mother Wolf to the moment when the master of the jungle returns to his own people, Mowgli's adventures comprise a fable of human life. Along with these stories are other animal tales. A magnificent new edition of the best-loved story featuring beautiful illustrations by award-winning Australian illustrator Robert Ingpen.

This delightful retelling of Rudyard Kipling's much-loved classic tale shows exactly how the curious elephant got his trunk!

Rudyard Kipling is the doyen of travel writers. His genius for evoking the sights, sounds and atmosphere of a place was crystallised in his fiction, in which he introduced Victorian readers to the drama and exoticism of the East. This title gathers together some of the most descriptive and revealing of his travel writing.

First published over a century ago, this title presents three stories about the man-cub Mowgli. It tells of Mowgli's upbringing among the wolves; his lessons in the Law of the Jungle from Baloo the bear, Bagheera the black panther and Kaa the python; his kidnap by the Monkey People and his clash with the evil tiger, Shere Khan.

A collection of short stories and poems that revolve round the boy Mowgli, who was raised by a pack of wolves in India. It features the tiger Shere Khan who attacked and drove off Mowgli's parents, Bagheera, the black panther, Baloo 'the sleepy brown bear, and the evil python, Kaa.

In the forests of India, a pack of wolves adopt a young boy and save him from a savage tiger. As Mowgli grows up, he learns the ways of the jungle from Bagheera the panther and the wise bear, Baloo. But he alone must decide whether to remain among beasts or embrace his own kind.

Contains the texts of the best-loved children's stories of all time such as - The Secret Garden , The Railway Children , Black Beauty , The Wind in the Willows , Treasure Island , Just So Stories , and Peter Pan .

Contains children's stories such as The Jungle Book , which introduces Mowgli, Puck of Pook's Hill , which relates how Dan and Una's magical meeting with Puck, the last of the People of the Hills, leads to their adventures with Romans and Crusaders, Saxons and Vikings, and others.

Rudyard Kipling, author of The Jungle Book and other fictions, was also a master of the short story in which he was able to combine the strange and unnerving in order to draw the reader into the world of his own dark imaginings.This collection presents the best of these strange tales in which ghosts, monsters and inexplicable happenings abound.

Go back to the very beginning of time, when everything is just getting sorted out...

Rudyard Kipling's Letters to His Children. A charming collection of letters, written in the style of the 'Just So Stories'. A fascinating glimpse into the life of one of the most notoriously reticent of writers, and a remarkable portrait of a devoted father. The letters are peppered with many impromptu pen and ink sketches, stories and poems, as well as brilliantly graphic descriptions of travel .

Go back to the very beginning of time, when everything is just getting sorted out...

Originally written for the Lahore Civil and Military Gazette , this book presents stories that were intended for a provincial readership familiar with the pleasures and miseries of colonial life. It is about the barriers between the races, the classes and the sexes; and about innocence, not transformed into experience but implacably crushed.