This book has been sixteen years on the way, and it has arrived. Long years ago many teachers in central Illinois said: We want a Kipling book. The demand was for a book that could be used in each grade of the public schools, if possible in the child's own hands. The use of The Just SO Stories and The Jungle Book has come more and more into practice through the importunities Of teachers. These books have been entered on many school lists as supplementary reading. This book is intended to reach the hands of chil dren in lower grades, kindergartens, and nurseries, by its picture pages, which will be supplemented by the reading of the text by teachers or parents.