Just So Stories: The Cat That Walked By Himself by Shoo Rayner (author) (UK edition)

Once upon a time, in the very dawn of the world, all the animals of the Wild Wet Woods were wild. The dog was wild, and the horse was wild, and the cow was wild, and the sheep was wild, and the pig was wild – as wild as wild could be. But the wildest of all the wild animals was the cat. So how did the cat come to live beside man? 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.