The Jungle Books: The First and Second Jungle Book in One Complete Volume
This unabridged edition of Rudyard Kipling's masterpieces The Jungle Book and The Second Jungle Book will excite both children and adults. Having taken a place in the hearts of many readers for well over a century, Kipling's beloved characters are timeless. Mowgli, the famous man cub who was...
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This unabridged edition of Rudyard Kipling's masterpieces The Jungle Book and The Second Jungle Book will excite both children and adults. Having taken a place in the hearts of many readers for well over a century, Kipling's beloved characters are timeless. Mowgli, the famous man cub who was raised by wolves, learns the ways of the jungle and life on his adventures with Baloo the bear, Bagheera the panther, Shere Khan the tiger, and Kaa the python. The adventures don't stop with Mowgli and company. Rikki-Tikki-Tavi, Quiquern, and many other intriguing animals and people risk their lives to survive and learn the lessons of life.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780980060584 (0980060583)
Publish date: April 5th 2010
Publisher: Megalodon Entertainment LLC.
Pages no: 244
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Young Adult,
Childrens,
Adventure,
Classics,
Literature,
Cultural,
Classic Literature,
India,
Animals,
Short Stories
The Jungle Books can be regarded as classic stories told by an adult to children. But they also constitute a complex literary work of art in which the whole of Kipling's philosophy of life is expressed in miniature. They are best known for the `Mowgli' stories; the tale of a baby abandoned and broug...
Last time I read The Jungle Book was years ago, to my son, when he was a preschooler. I didn’t remember much before I started this read. It might be that I only read him selective stories, because my memory of the stories was sketchy. Mowgli – aye, all of them, even the ones included in the other Ju...
I didn't expect to love this book as much as I did. Well, as much as I loved a good half of it. This isn't a novel, but a collection of 15 stories. Eight of them do involve Mowgli, a young Indian boy orphaned by the evil tiger Shere Khan, raised by wolves and who can count as friends and protectors ...
I picked up this book to read originally because my husband was telling me that a character I liked who was raised by wolves sounded an awful lot like Mowgli. The only exposure I'd had to the story before was the Disney film, which he assured me didn't do the book any sort of justice. So, expecting ...
All I've ever known really about the Jungle Book was confined to the film version, which is a far cry from Rudyard Kipling's original. My first surprise, was that this was an anthology, not just the story of Mowgli (but that is by far the best story in the collection). My next surprise came in the...