The Jungle Books - Hardcover

Kipling, Rudyard

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Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0883632012 ISBN 13: 9780883632017

Publisher: Universe, 1998

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Presents the complete unedited texts of the classic spirited adventure tales set in the green jungles of India, with sixteen original, fine watercolor illustrations printed on high-quality ivory stock. All ages.

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No child should be allowed to grow up without reading The Jungle Books. Published in 1894 and 1895, the stories crackle with as much life and intensity as ever. Rudyard Kipling pours fuel on childhood fantasies with his tales of Mowgli, lost in the jungles of India as a child and adopted into a family of wolves. Mowgli is brought up on a diet of Jungle Law, loyalty, and fresh meat from the kill. Regular adventures with his friends and enemies among the Jungle-People--cobras, panthers, bears, and tigers--hone this man-cub's strength and cleverness and whet every reader's imagination. Mowgli's story is interspersed with other tales of the jungle, such as "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi," lending depth and diversity to our understanding of Kipling's India. In much the same way Mowgli is carried away by the Bandar-log monkeys, young readers will be caught up by the stories, swinging from page to page, breathless, thrilled, and terrified. (Ages 9 to 12)

About the Author:

Rudyard Kipling was born in Bombay in 1865. He started working as a journalist in India in 1882 and wrote Plain Tales from the Hills (1888) which made him an instant literary celebrity on his return to England in 1889. After marrying he moved to Vermont, where he wrote The Jungle Book (1894). Other works include: Kim (1901), Just So Stories (1902), A Diversity of Creatures (1917) and Debits and Credits (1926). He was the first English writer awarded the Nobel Prize in 1907. He died in 1936.

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