Robert Ingpen

The Stolen White Elephant' is a funny and satirical short story, following the investigations of Inspector Blunt when a pale pachyderm is stolen. Gifted from a king to a queen, the ship carrying the eponymous elephant stops at a harbour in New Jersey and goes missing. In this tale, Twain expertly parodies police investigative procedures, as forces fail to share information and a horribly expensive manhunt – or should that be 'elephant-hunt' –...

Includes stories from around the world, showing how ancient peoples tried to make sense of the mysteries of life.

Explores initiation rites, wedding feasts, harvest celebrations, religious rituals, and many other customs used around the world to mark all kinds of special occasions.

A collection of traditional stories from around the world about men and women who performed extraordinary deeds to win honor, a kingdom, or love.

How did the whale get his throat? Why was the lazy camel lumbered with a hump? And how did the elephant's insatiable curiosity earn him a trunk? Kipling first invented these delightful stories about the beginning of the world and the first animals in it for his own daughter, Josephine, who tragically died when she was six. Devastated by her loss, Kipling compiled the stories they had shared together into a treasury, which was first published in 1902....

The adventures of the three Darling children in Never-Never Land with Peter Pan, the boy who would not grow up.