ReadThe Cat That Walked by Himself
The Woman tamed the Dog, the Horse and the Cow, but the clever Cat struck a bargain: three praises, and he gets the fire, yet he still walks by himself.
Retold from: Rudyard Kipling
Rudyard Kipling was an English writer born in India, the author of “The Jungle Book” and “Just So Stories”.
He was born in 1865 in Bombay (now Mumbai), spent his childhood and youth between India and England, and later settled in England. In 1907 Kipling received the Nobel Prize in Literature, the first writer in English to do so. He died in London in 1936.
“The Jungle Book” (1894) tells the stories of Mowgli and the other inhabitants of the Indian forests. Kipling first told “Just So Stories” (1902) to his own children: they playfully explain where the elephant got his trunk and the leopard his spots.
The site already has “Rikki-Tikki-Tavi”, about a small, brave mongoose who protects the boy Teddy and his family from two cobras, and “The Little Elephant”, about a curious little elephant who went to the Limpopo River and came back with a long trunk.
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Rikki-Tikki-Tavi
A brave little mongoose protects a boy named Teddy and his family from two sly cobras who live in a big garden in India.
ReadThe Little Elephant
A curious Little Elephant goes to the Limpopo River to find out what the Crocodile has for dinner, and comes home with a wonderful long trunk.