Why does the whale eat only small fish

There followed six unhappy years: the boy was not liked, and often punished. At the age of 12, his parents enrolled Rudyard in a private school, where the director was a friend of his father's. It was expected that the school would prepare the young man for a military career, but his nearsightedness thwarted these plans. It was impossible to enroll in other educational institutions after this school, and Rudyard, who already wrote excellent stories during his studies, began working as a journalist in India.

Kipling wrote a lot. When he was just over twenty, he had already published 6 books of stories, and at 25, the talented young man published his first novel. Rudyard Kipling is the first Englishman to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature. Children and adults all over the world love the bright, original creativity of this writer. His books are read in many countries, and numerous cartoons, feature films, and the anime series "The Jungle Book" have been made based on them in Russia and abroad. It is unlikely that there is a person who has never heard the names Mowgli or Rikki-Tikki-Tavi.

This book contains 5 amazing stories written over 100 years ago. Funny, wise, and instructive, they tell about unusual animals, explain how armadillos came to be, how the crab acquired strong, sharp pincers, why the elephant has a long trunk, why the leopard has spots, and also reveal the "secret" of the whale.