Just So Stories

A young painted jaguar learns how to hunt a hedgehog and a tortoise.

A greedy whale swallows a shipwrecked mariner and a grumpy rhinoceros steals Parsee’s cake.

A butterfly shakes up an entire empire simply by showing off.

A wily, wild cat pretends he’s been tamed, while the dog, the horse and the cow have to serve man.

An idle camel is given a hump so he can work harder and a conceited kangaroo is tricked by the Big God Nqong.

A crab decides to swap his great size with a little girl’s scissors.

The little neolithic girl Taffy has a new idea to communicate with her mother and hits upon a great invention, drawing the first letter.

The little neolithic girl Taffy finds out the big secret of the world: writing.

An insatiable elephant’s child’s curiosity leads him to get a new nose from the crocodile, to the distaste of his entire family.