The famous English writer Rudyard Kipling wrote and illustrated these tales with his own drawings. Many generations of children learned from these tales why the elephant has a long nose and the kangaroo has long legs, where the leopard got its spotted skin and who gave the camel its hump. And who doesn’t know a funny story about a cat who walked wherever he wanted? In our country, these tales were published together and separately and invariably enjoyed great success. But with the author’s drawings they became a bibliographic rarity. We offer the reader exactly this edition of this book. It will bring pleasure not only to the kids, but also to their parents.