This tale was written by Rudyard Kipling for his beloved daughter, Josephine, died from a disease at the age of eight. It is an extract from one of his most famous collections of stories, Just so stories, inspired by his natural empathy with the animal world.

Kipling is born in Bombay in 1865. After having studied in England, he became a journalist and a writer. The author of the Jungle Book is not only a poet of the British Empire but also a curious spirit with a childish view on the things of the world. In 1907, he became the first English writer to be awarded the Nobel Prize. He died in 1936 and is buried in Westminster Abbey.

This site has been designed just after Christmas 2001 by Jean-Christophe Loubet del Bayle. He shares with the Elephant�s child an �satiable curtiosity. However, wiser than this latter, he has still his original nose.

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Just so stories (Histoires comme ça in French) has been published several times. Please find hereby some book covers...