He composed fairy tales for his daughter Josephine, and when the girl died at the age of six from pneumonia, Kipling compiled a collection of twelve fairy tales and published it in 1902 in memory of his favorite. These tales about the creation of the world and the first wild animals have been translated into almost all languages , and children in all countries enjoy reading them. This book includes seven fairy tales translated by wonderful children's writers Korney Chukovsky and Samuil Marshak. For middle school age.