Just So Stories By Rudyard Kipling crafty Rumpelstiltskin and the ill-fated

crafty Rumpelstiltskin and the ill-fated infants Hansel and Gretel

Before he was the Gray Man

the old warrior Socrates shrugs off Dan’s questions with a laconic “It’s the House Rules

and his companions trek into the deep mines of King Solomon in the heart of Africa—searching for a lost friend and a lost treasure

Just So Stories By Rudyard Kipling crafty Rumpelstiltskin and the ill-fatedA relentlessly inventive collection of myths that betray a deep love and respect for the natural world, the Penguin Classics edition of Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories is edited with an introduction by Judith Plotz and a general preface by series editor Jan Montefiore. In these bewitching stories we learn 'How the Camel got his Hump', ' How the Leopard got his Spots' and 'How the Whale got his Throat', as Rudyard Kipling conjures up distant lands,