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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) --This text refers to an
out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Collection of stories by Rudyard Kipling, published in 1894. The
Second Jungle Book, published in 1895, contains stories linked by
poems. The stories tell mostly of Mowgli, an Indian boy who is
raised by wolves from infancy and who learns self-sufficiency and
wisdom from the jungle animals. The book describes the social life
of the wolf pack and, more fancifully, the justice and natural
order of life in the jungle. Among the animals whose tales are
related in the work are Akela the wolf; Baloo the brown bear; Shere
Khan, the boastful Bengal tiger who is Mowgli's enemy; Kaa the
python; Bagheera the panther; and Rikki-tikki-tavi the mongoose. --
The Merriam-Webster Encyclopedia of Literature --This text refers
to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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