The Jungle Books: The First and Second Jungle Book in One Complete Volume - Softcover

Kipling, Rudyard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0980060583 ISBN 13: 9780980060584

Publisher: Megalodon Entertainment LLC., 2010

Synopsis

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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Review:

"The Jungle Book was one of those rare books that I felt I was actually living as I read it" (Michael Morpurgo)

"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)

"The incantatory text of Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Books still rewards reading aloud" (Sunday Times)

"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)

"So what makes these different to any other set of classics? In a moment of inspiration Random House had the bright idea of actually asking Key stage 2 children what extra ingredients they could add to make children want to read. And does it work? Well, put it this way...my 13-year-old daughter announced that she had to read a book over the summer holiday and, without any prompting, spotted The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas...and proceeded to read it! Now, if you knew my 13-year-old daughter, you would realise that this is quite remarkable. She reads texts, blogs and tags by the thousand - but this is the first book she has read since going to high school, so all hail Vintage Classics!" (National Association for the Teaching of English)

Book Description:

Learn the ways of the jungle with little Mowgli the man-cub. Swing from the trees, befriend the animals, face your primal fears

About this edition

• Publisher: Megalodon Entertainment LLC.
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0980060583
• ISBN 13: 9780980060584
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 244