No. 8 of 10 · O Best Beloved

Slow-Solid and Stickly-Prickly

Pictures by Rudyard Kipling

Rudyard Kipling's own ink drawing shows the Painted Jaguar clutching a tortoise and a hedgehog, paired with his rhyme from the Just So Stories: "Can't curl, but can swim, Slow-Solid, that's him." Kipling wrote these stories to read aloud to his own children and drew the pictures for them himself. For a book lover, or anyone who grew up on bedtime stories.

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Inside, it says

Can't curl, but can swim - Slow-Solid, that's him! Curls up, but can't swim - Stickly-Prickly, that's him! Rudyard Kipling, Just So Stories, 1902

On the back

Rudyard Kipling wrote the Just So Stories (1902) to be read aloud to his own children, and drew the pictures himself.

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• Birthday