How the Camel got his Hump

The Just So Stories are a century old this year, and Zwerger's large format picture book is an apt celebration of one of the best known of them. Kipling's account of how the camel's arrogant 'humph!' when asked to share the work of the horse, ox and dog is transformed by a djinn into a physical attribute is told in a jokily archaic dialect that children might savour, and though the didactic little ditty that Kipling wrote to go with the story is omitted, they might care to share their own interpretations of the moral of the tale. Zwerger's whole page paintings are spare and spacious, facing a clear, large print text embellished with fabric-based motifs.