Just So Stories - How The First Letter Was Written

Before letters had names and words had shapes, pictures tried to speak for us.

In this playful and warmly imaginative tale from Just So Stories, Rudyard Kipling tells how writing came into the world-not through careful planning, but through a child's loving attempt to help her father.

When Tegumai breaks his spear beside the river, his clever daughter Taffy decides to send a message home. Unable to write words, she draws pictures instead-simple marks meant to explain, but easily misunderstood...