The Jungle Book
Tor Classics are affordably-priced editions designed to attract the young reader. Original dynamic cover art enthusiastically represents the excitement of each story. Appropriate "reader friendly" type sizes have been chosen for each title—offering clear, accurate, and readable text. All editions...
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Tor Classics are affordably-priced editions designed to attract the young reader. Original dynamic cover art enthusiastically represents the excitement of each story. Appropriate "reader friendly" type sizes have been chosen for each title—offering clear, accurate, and readable text. All editions are complete and unabridged, and feature Introductions and Afterwords.This edition of The Jungle Book includes a Biographical Note, Foreward, Preface, and Afterword by Jane Yolen.Run with them. Or fear them--Bagheera the Panther: A silken shadow of boldness and cunning.Kaa the Python: A thirty foot battering ram driven by a cool, hungry mind.Baloo the Bear: who keeps the lore and the Law, and teaches the Secret Words.Rikki the Mongoose: The young protector who sings as he slays.Akela and Raksha the Wolves: Demon warriors of the Free People.Shere Khan the Tiger: The dreaded enemy of all.And Mowgli the Man-cub: The orphan baby raised by the wolves, taught by Baloo, trained by Bagheera and Kaa. The sorcerer who knows the ways of the jungle and speaks the language of the wild...
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Format: mass market paperback
ISBN:
9780812504699 (0812504690)
Publish date: January 8th 1992
Publisher: Tor Books
Pages no: 277
Edition language: English
by Rudyard Kipling The next time someone starts going on about an author "telling" instead of "showing", I'm going to direct them to Rudyard Kipling. There's a reason why it's called telling a story and Kipling does an excellent job of telling us about each of the most important characters that po...
If you're looking for the cutesy tone of the film, or even its recent live-action re-make, look elsewhere, you won't find it here. You might be better off with Winnie-the-Pooh. I had forgotten that several of the tales collected here are not about Mowgli, or the Jungle or even India in some cases ...
Beschreibung Das Dschungelbuch ist eine Kurzgeschichtensammlung in der es um die Abenteuer des kleinen Menschenjungen Mowgli geht, der bei den Wölfen im Dschungel aufwächst und gegen den furchteinflößenden Tiger Shir Kahn kämpft. Aber auch die mitreisende Suche nach einer geschützten Heimat der we...
Puis il se dit: "à quoi bon être homme, si on ne comprend pas le langage de l'homme?
Na starość podobno się dziecinnieje. Może to dlatego, a może po prostu chciałem zasięgnąć do źródeł jednej z ciekawszym bajek z dzieciństwa. Motywy nie są tu najważniejsze, ale faktem sie stało, że sięgnąłem po literaturę dziecięcą. I zaraz się dowiecie, co o niej sądzę. Po pierwsze, jeżeli sądzic...
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