Just So Stories: How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin 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 very rude rhinoceros with a wonderfully tight, smooth skin. So how did the rhinoceros get the saggy, baggy skin he has today – not to mention his terrible temper?

Retold in this young edition, Rudyard Kipling’s timeless fable 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.