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How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin

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How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin is a classic "pourquoi" tale adapted for young readers from Rudyard Kipling’s Just So Stories. The story tells of a Rhinoceros with smooth, tight-fitting skin and very bad manners who steals a delicious cake from a Parsi man. In a clever act of revenge, the Parsi man fills the Rhinoceros's skin with old, itchy cake crumbs while the animal is swimming. The Rhinoceros rubs himself so hard against a tree to stop the itching that his skin becomes wrinkled and baggy, and his temper becomes permanently sour. This whimsical story uses humor and folklore to explain the physical characteristics of the rhinoceros.

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823 ADA h

Publisher

New Delhi : Penguin Books India., 2008

Collation

ilus.; 12 x 18

Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

978149301844

Classification

823

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Edition

1

Subject(s)

Children's stories, English
Folklore — England
Rhinoceroses — Juvenile fiction
Manners and etiquette — Fiction
Animals — Mythology

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