This collection of 12 stories reveals Kipling’s imagined answers to the great mysteries in the animal world. He draws on the beast fables he heard as a child in India, as well as on folk games with language. Originally published in 1902.
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Anne Frank: A Hidden Life
Describes the background in which Anne Frank’s life and diary were set as she hid in an attic in Nazi-occupied Holland for two years.
White Peak Farm
Teenage Jeannie unfolds the triumphs and tragedies of her close-knit family as they face violent changes on their isolated Derbyshire farm.
Anne Frank: The Diary Of A Young Girl
The autobiographical reminiscences of a young Jewish girl coming of age during World War II describes her life in hiding from the Nazis and offers a poignant study of the tragedy of the Holocaust.
Big Rain Coming
As one dry day follows another in the Australian outback, everyone and everything is waiting for the rain, which seems as though it will never come.
Muti’s Necklace: The Oldest Story in the World
Muti treasures the necklace her father gave her so much that she risks the wrath of Egypt’s pharaoh when it falls into the water. Based on an ancient Egyptian story.
Dizzy: A Novel
After an eight-year absence, Dizzy’s ‘New Age traveler’ mother suddenly shows up on her twelfth birthday and whisks her away to a series of festivals throughout Scotland in her rattletrap van.
Look What We’ve Brought You From Korea
Introduces Korea’s cultural background with games, folk tales, recipes, and crafts.
The Nose
When a barber finds the nose of one of his clients in a loaf of bread baked by his wife, strange events ensue as the client tries to get his nose back. At the same time, in another part of the city, the Deputy Inspector of Reindeer awoke and looked in the mirror–only to find a totally empty spot where his nose should have been.
Rikki-Tikki-Tavi
A courageous mongoose thwarts the evil plans of Nag and Nagaina, two big black cobras who live in the garden.