Just So Stories

The Whale swallows a shipwrecked Mariner, his raft, jack-knife—and the suspenders he will need to escape. Inside the Whale’s warm, dark cupboards, Mr. Henry Albert Bivvens is not about to behave.

In Rudyard Kipling’s 1902 collection, the world is new, animals are learning their ways, and every odd feature has a wonderfully improbable beginning. A small, ‘Stute Fish steers the greedy Whale toward his next meal, while a stubborn Camel’s refusal to work brings the Horse, Dog and Ox to the end of their patience. Told with a storyteller’s teasing warmth to ‘O my Best Beloved,’ these tales turn nature into a place of magic, mischief and ingenious reversals. How does a sailor make a whale stop eating—and what could a camel’s “Humph!” possibly earn him?

With centuries of literature, it's inevitable that some will fall through the cracks. We hunt down public domain works and restore them so they're not lost to the world.

Who are we? We're Cairn Press. Our background is in design, publishing, typography, and technology. These skills fuel our mission to create the highest quality Public Domain eBooks available online, at an affordable price. We give them the treatment they deserve; our proprietary process restores books for a better overall user experience in design, readability, and e-reader compatibility.