Just So Stories

1. The Beginning Of the Armadillos

A young painted jaguar learns how to hunt a hedgehog and a tortoise.

1979-04-03 • 10 min

2. How The Whale Got His Throat / How The Rhinoceros Got His Skin

A greedy whale swallows a shipwrecked mariner and a grumpy rhinoceros steals Parsee’s cake.

1979-04-10 • 10 min

3. The Butterfly That Stamped

A butterfly shakes up an entire empire simply by showing off.

1979-04-17 • 10 min

4. The Cat That Walked By Himself

A wily, wild cat pretends he’s been tamed, while the dog, the horse and the cow have to serve man.

1979-04-24 • 10 min

5. How The Camel Got His Hump & The Sing-Song Of Old Man Kangaroo

An idle camel is given a hump so he can work harder and a conceited kangaroo is tricked by the Big God Nqong.

1979-05-01 • 10 min

6. The Crab That Played With The Sea

A crab decides to swap his great size with a little girl’s scissors.

1979-05-08 • 10 min

7. How The First Letter Was Written

The little neolithic girl Taffy has a new idea to communicate with her mother and hits upon a great invention, drawing the first letter.

1979-05-15 • 10 min

8. How The Alphabet Was Made

The little neolithic girl Taffy finds out the big secret of the world: writing.

1979-05-22 • 10 min

9. The Elephant's Child

An insatiable elephant’s child’s curiosity leads him to get a new nose from the crocodile, to the distaste of his entire family.

1979-05-29 • 10 min