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I enjoyed this book. It's a myth about how the armadillo came to be, through the adaptation of a hedgehog and a turtle working together. I believe the moral of the story is that working together can help you survive in the world, because that is what the hedgehog and the turtle did. I loved all the detail in the illustrations. The cross-hatching and the lines on the turtle's back made the pictures look very life like. The bright color of the jaguar made him contrast quite beautifully with the background of the jungle, making him stand out as an important character in the story. The language was very different to what I am used to. It took a little while to get into the story and stop focusing on the different wording and focus more on the story Kipling was trying to tell. An example of this "different language is right at the beginning, when the narrator says "In the very middle of those times was a Stickly Prickly Hedgehog, and he lived on the banks of the turbid amazon, eating shelly snails and things." ( )