How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin

In this sun-washed tale from Rudyard Kipling's beloved Just So Stories, a badly behaved rhinoceros learns-quite literally-what it means to live in one's own skin.

On a lonely island near the Red Sea, a meticulous Parsee bakes a magnificent cake, only to have it stolen and devoured by a rude, button-skinned rhinoceros with no manners to speak of. Weeks later, when the heat drives everyone to the water, the Parsee takes his quiet revenge-filling the rhinoceros's discarded skin with crumbs that...