“They’ve delighted both adults and children for nearly eight decades. What keeps the dust off Kipling is his unharnessed imagination and language so playful it begs to be read aloud.”
–Los Angeles Times

“Graceful prose and pungent humor… In the same league with such children’s classics as Winnie the Pooh and Alice in Wonderland… Kipling’s fantastic fictions hark to a golden age of storytelling.”
–Publishers Weekly

“It has, like all good fairy-business, a sound core of philosophy.”
–Atlantic Monthly

“Intimately told… Extraordinary ingenuity and inventiveness.”
–Guardian

“They’ve delighted both adults and children for nearly eight decades. What keeps the dust off Kipling is his unharnessed imagination and language so playful it begs to be read aloud.”
–Los Angeles Times

“Graceful prose and pungent humor… In the same league with such children’s classics as Winnie the Pooh and Alice in Wonderland… Kipling’s fantastic fictions hark to a golden age of storytelling.”
–Publishers Weekly

“It has, like all good fairy-business, a sound core of philosophy.”
–Atlantic Monthly

“Intimately told… Extraordinary ingenuity and inventiveness.”
–Guardian