"The adventures of the taunting tailor bird, the wily jackal and the stupid tiger, the ill-fated crocodile and other assorted animals make up this group of twenty Bengali tales written by Upendrakishore Raychaudhuri, the grandfather of the film director, Satyajit Ray. The stories are very much in the folk-tale tradition, where the wily defeat the strong and the bully gets his comeuppance." - from the back cover of the book.