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Author:
Rudyard Kipling
Format: Paperback
EAN: 9780099540922
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EAN: 9780099540922
Published: 4 Feb 2010
The Jungle Books tell the story of the irrepressible Mowgli, who is rescued as a baby from the jaws of the evil tiger, Shere Khan. Raised by wolves and guided by Baloo the bear, Mowgli and his animal friends embark on a series of hair-raising adventures through the jungles of India.
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Loved by children and adults alike
- Daily Mail
The original stories of The Jungle Book surpass all rollicking Disneyfied expectations. On one level, the Mancub's education is pure entertainment; on another, the jungle is symbolic of Kipling's philosophy of life, a moral playground in which the young learn to swing on the vines of life
- The Times
One of the greatest writers that Britain has ever produced
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The incantatory text of Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Books still rewards reading aloud
- Sunday Times
[Its] lasting power to enchant lies not in a contrived simplicity of language - it makes no concession to the age or verbal dexterity of the reader - but rather to its uncanny understanding of the adult within every child
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'The child who has never run with Mowgli's wolf pack . . . has missed something that he will not get from any other writer
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The Just So Stories and The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling have always held a fascination for me, and doubtless sparked off my love of India
- Prince of Wales
Rudyard Kipling is a writer for our times, and for all time
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Around a century ago, Rudyard Kipling laid the foundations of modern children's literature with works such as The Jungle Book, Just So Stories and Puck of Pook's Hill. Far from the fusty Victorian conventions of the time, they were wild, magnificent stories that felt as though they'd always existed, stories people might have told each other in the caves
- Daily Telegraph
Rudyard Kipling was born in Bombay in India on 30 December 1865. He was sent back to England when he was seven years old but returned to India in 1882 to work as the assistant editor of the Civil & Military Gazette in Lahore. He published poetry and stories in newspapers but it was the publication of Plain Tales from the Hills in 1888 that brought him his first major success. His most famous works are Barrack-room Ballads (1892), The Jungle Book (1894), Kim (1901), and Just So Stories (1902). The Just So Stories were written for his children and are addressed to his six-year-old daughter Josephine, his 'best beloved', who died of pneumonia in 1899. Rudyard Kipling died on 18 January 1936.
