Why do elephants need their trunks? Have they always had it? You can fi nd answers to these and other questions through reading Rudyard Kipling’s fairy-tale, published in a new beautiful edition illustrated by famous Józef Wilkoń,a legend among Polish children’s book illustrators. He is a prizewinner of many international illustration competitions, i.a, in Bologna (1980, 91), Padua (1975), Bratislava (1969,73), Geneva (2000), Arles (2000), Leipzig (1959) and Düsseldorf (1966).