The Jungle Book-Treasury of Illustrated Classics Storybooks Collection - Hardcover

Rudyard Kipling

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 076663180X ISBN 13: 9780766631809

Publisher: Kappa Books Publishers, 2017

Synopsis

This book is an adaptation of the classic novel The Jungle Book. Rescued as an infant from the savage tiger Shere Khan, Mowgli is reared by a pack of wolves. His days are filled with excitement and danger as he learns the ways of the jungle from Bagheera the panther and the wise bear, Baloo. As the boy grows, he also learns he must take his place among his own kind, but first, he must face Shere Khan in a battle of wits and strength to discover the true King of the Jungle. This easy to read adaptation is guaranteed to hook beginning readers not yet ready to tackle the original.

About this title

About the Author:

RUDYARD KIPLING was born in Bombay on December 30th 1865, son of John Lockwood Kipling, an artist and teacher of architectural sculpture, and his wife Alice. His mother was one of the talented and beautiful Macdonald sisters, four of whom married remarkable men, Sir Edward Burne-Jones, Sir Edward Poynter, Alfred Baldwin, and John Lockwood Kipling himself. Young Rudyard's earliest years in Bombay were blissfully happy, in an India full of exotic sights and sounds. But at the tender age of five he was sent back to England to stay with a foster family in Southsea, where he was desperately unhappy. The experience would colour some of his later writing. When he was twelve he went to the United Services College at Westward Ho! near Bideford, where the Headmaster, Cormell Price, a friend of his father and uncles, fostered his literary ability. Stalky & Co., based on those schooldays, has been much relished by generations of schoolboys. Despite poor eyesight which handicapped him on the games field, he began to blossom. In 1882, aged sixteen, he returned to Lahore, where his parents now lived, to work on the Civil and Military Gazette , and later on its sister paper the Pioneer in Allahabad. In his limited spare time he wrote many remarkable poems and stories which were published alongside his reporting. When these were collected and published as books, they formed the basis of his early fame.

About this edition

• Publisher: Kappa Books Publishers
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 076663180X
• ISBN 13: 9780766631809
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 192