The Jungle Book & The Second Jungle Book (Complete, With Smart Active Table of Contents)

by Rudyard Kipling

Overview

The Jungle Book (1894) and The Second Jungle Book (1895) is a collection of stories by Rudyard Kipling. The stories were first published in magazines in 1893–5.
The tales in the book are fables, using animals in an anthropomorphic manner to give moral lessons.
The most famous of the other stories are probably "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi", the story of a heroic mongoose, and "Toomai of the Elephants", the tale of a young elephant-handler.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940013600768
Publisher:	Ladislav Deczi
Publication date:	06/11/2011
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	449 KB
Age Range:	9 - 12 Years

About the Author

Rudyard Kipling (30 December 1865 – 18 January 1936) was an English novelist, poet, and short-story writer, and novelist. He is famous for his books for children.

He was born in Bombay, in the Bombay Presidency of British India, and was taken by his family to England when he was five years old. Kipling is best known for The Jungle Book (1894), Kim (1901), many short stories, including "The Man Who Would Be King" (1888); and his poems, including Mandalay (1890), Gunga Din (1890), The White Man's Burden (1899) and If— (1910). He is regarded as a major "innovator in the art of the short story"; his children's books are enduring classics of children's literature; and his best works are said to exhibit "a versatile and luminous narrative gift".

He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907.