Jungle Books Volume 1

Jungle Books Volume 1

by Rudyard Kipling, Aldren Watson (Illustrator), Nelson Doubleday (Introduction)
Publisher: Doubleday & Company
©1948, Item: 95652
Hardcover
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From the dust jacket:

Out of the welter of charming or amusing or exciting books for children a few remain enduring enough in their impression to become part of the reader's cultural equipment through life. Kipling's THE JUNGLE BOOKS is one of these. Hailed enthusiastically upon its appear- ance in 1894, it has remained a favorite of young and old and has gone into edition after edition.

Here is Mowgli, the wolf boy; Shere Khan, the murderous lame tiger; Toomai, the elephant boy; and Rikki-Tikki-tavi, the agile mongoose. Without sentimentality and without scientific pedantry, Kipling has made animals the actors in his jungle dramas which are startling in their beauty and in their revelation of the hidden world of beasts.

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