Other editions of book How the Camel Got His Hump

This playful tale is among the best known of Rudyard Kipling’s Just So stories. Pride and arrogance prove to be the downfall of a lazy camel. Ages 5 and up

The playful tale is among the best known of Rudyard Kipling's "Just So" stories. In it, pride and arrogance prove to be the downfall of a lazy camel. Never has there been a more satisfying rendering of Kipling's most beloved "Just So" story, which explains what the world was like "in the beginning of years when the world was new and all..."

When the world was new, the camel, a creature of 'scruciating idleness, said "Humph!" too often and received for all time a hump[h] from the Djinn of All Deserts.

A lazy camel falls under the spell of the Djinn

When the world was new, the camel, a creature of 'scruciating idleness, said "Humph!" too often and received for all time a hump[h] from the Djinn of All Deserts.