The Six Servants: A poor boy is helped on his quest by six servants with very unusual powers. The Fisherman and His Wife: A young fisherman is granted wishes by a magical flounder, but his wife's extraordinary ambitions prove to be their downfall

Kipling creates a harmonious picture of India that unites the secular and the spiritual, the life of action and that of contemplation. It is the story of the orphaned son of an Irish soldier, Kimball O'Hara, who spends his childhood as a vagabond, traveling through India with an old Tibetan lama, enthralled by the 'roaring whirl' of the country's colorful landscape and by the diversity of its people.

My Father's Dragon is a children's book about a young boy, Elmer Elevator, who runs away to Wild Island to rescue a baby dragon. It is both a Newbery Honor Book and an ALA Notable Book. It was also nominated for the Ambassador Book Award. The National Education Association named it one of its 'Teachers' Top 100 Books for Children.' In addition, it was one of the 'Top 100 Chapter Books' of all time in a 2012 poll by School Library Journal.

'The Beginning of the Armadillos' and 'The Cat That Walked by Himself' are selections from Kipling's Just So Stories for Little Children. The 'just so' stories are highly fantasized origin stories that are among Kipling's best known and, arguably, best works.