Just So Stories: How the Camel Got His Hump by Shoo Rayner (author) (UK edition)

Long ago in the dawn of time, before the world was sorted into the shapes it is in today, there lived a camel in the Howling Desert: a camel without a hump. He was a very lazy camel, and the only word he knew was ‘Humph’. So where did the camel get his hump from? Rudyard Kipling’s timeless fable, retold in this young edition, draws on Indian and African folklore to tell a story that sweeps readers back into the primal world. Bringing a burst of exotic flavour into the classroom, and shimmering with unusual, comical language for little tongues to wrap themselves around, it is both a fabulous story and a fresh, imaginative way to get children thinking about the origins, forms and uses of things.