Original and unabridged text of Rudyard Kipling's timeless classic. With refreshingly new illustrations. If you have ever asked, "How did the camel get his hump?" If you have ever wondered, "How did the leopard get his spots?" Then you are a very special kind of curious person who will love the answers in these books. In this Just So Story we find out how the rhino got his skin. Hint he stole some cakes!

A graphic retellng of Rudyard Kipling's classic tale that explains how the rhino's skin came to be.

Relates how the leopard got his spotted coat in order to hunt the animals in the dappled shadows of the forest.

The Rhino has lovely skin that fits just right. But what happens when he spies the cake that Man just made? A special cake with currant and plums in it...This tale is wonderfully illustrated and the first of Kipling's Just So Stories to feature in the Usborne Reading Programme - stories specially written for children who are learning to read.

In this story, smooth-skinned Rhinoceros rudely charges up and steals a man's cake. Then the man comes up with a plan to teach that rude Rhino a lesson! The Tadpoles Tales series features simple retellings of Rudyard Kipling's Just So stories with bright, fun illustrations, for children who are just starting to read on their own.

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

A fascinating, richly illustrated exploration of the poignant origins of Rudyard Kipling’s world-famous children’s classic From "How the Leopard Got Its Spots" to "The Elephant’s Child," Rudyard Kipling’s Just So Stories have delighted readers across the world for more than a century. In this original study, John Batchelor explores the artistry with which Kipling created the Just So Stories, using each tale as an entry point into the writer’s life and work—including the tragedy that shadows much of the volume, the death of his daughter Josephine. Batchelor details the playful challenges the stories made to contemporary society. In his stories Kipling played with biblical and other stories of creation and imagined fantastical tales of animals' development and man's discovery of literacy. Richly illustrated with original drawings and family photographs, this account reveals Kipling’s public and private lives—and sheds new light on a much-loved and tremendously influential classic.