The Second Jungle Book

by Rudyard Kipling

Overview

Kipling's classic collection of fables and poems presents the further adventures of Mowgli, as well as introducing new characters and settings. In HOW FEAR CAME, Hathi the elephant tells Mowgli the story of how the first tiger got its stripes; while in THE SPRING RUNNING, a seventeen-year-old Mowgli is torn between staying with his mother and returning to the jungle. QUIQUERN relates how two young Inuit set out across the arctic ice in a desperate quest to save their tribe from starvation, guided by a mysterious animal spirit; and in THE UNDERTAKERS the most dangerous animal on the river unexpectedly gets his come-uppance when his victims take revenge.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783842441491
Publisher:	Tredition Classics
Publication date:	11/07/2011
Pages:	186
Product dimensions:	5.25(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.43(d)
Age Range:	9 Years

About the Author

Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) was born in Bombay in December 1865. He returned to India from England shortly before his seventeenth birthday, to work as a journalist first on the Civil and Military Gazette in Lahore, then on the Pioneer at Allahabad.

Editorial Reviews

The gift of writing for children is an unaccountable one, bestowed erratically and falling in unexpected places. Mr. Kipling has it in the fullest measure…Certainly the Jungle stories have never been approached in excellence by any other of his prose tales. The field is all his own, and he is safe even from imitators.”

San Francisco Argonaut

It would take too long to enumerate the half of the marvelous touches by which the creatures miscalled dumb are made to live for us by Rudyard Kipling…The saddest words of this volume are those with which he closes, ‘And this is the last of the Mowgli stories.’”

Vogue

Neither allegory nor fairy tale; it rises through imagination to something higher. Mr. Kipling does not use the animals of the jungle to illustrate human nature. He makes them akin…An art that is at once greater, more modern, and more human than any we have known.”

Vol. 31 Critic

A pure outburst of genius.”

New York Times