The Jungle Book
by Rudyard Kipling
No child should be allowed to grow up without reading the Forestbooks. These stories are crunching with the same life and intensity as ever. Rudyard Kipling fuels children's fantasies with Mowgli tales, who disappeared as a child in the jungles of India and were adopted by a wolf family. Mowgli is grown on a diet of fresh meat from the law of the jungle, loyalty and murder. Regular adventures among the forest people with friends and enemies - cobras, panthers, bears and tigers - sharpen the power and creativity of this cub and ignite the imagination of every reader. Mowgli's story is interspersed with other jungle stories, such as "Rikki-Tikki-Tawi," which gives depth and variety to our understanding of Kipling's India. Likewise, Mowgli is also fascinated by bandar log monkeys, young readers will be overtaken by excited and frightened stories, swaying from page to page with bat breath.
