false 1082369 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1180834436m/1082369.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1180834436s/1082369.jpg The Jungle Books. Published in 1894 and 1895, the stories crackle with as much life and intensity as ever. Rudyard Kipling pours fuel on childhood fantasies with his tales of Mowgli, lost in the jungles of India as a child and adopted into a family of wolves. Mowgli is brought up on a diet of Jungle Law, loyalty, and fresh meat from the kill. Regular adventures with his friends and enemies among the Jungle-People--cobras, panthers, bears, and tigers--hone this man-cub's strength and cleverness and whet every reader's imagination. Mowgli's story is interspersed with other tales of the jungle, such as "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi," lending depth and diversity to our understanding of Kipling's India. In much the same way Mowgli is carried away by the Bandar-log monkeys, young readers will be caught up by the stories, swinging from page to page, breathless, thrilled, and terrified. (Ages 9 to 12)]]> 41684 50 3183592 1894 The Jungle Books (Signet Classics) total:3014|5:889|4:1142|3:833|2:130|1:20| 3014 11792 4174 175 6989 3.88 15441 1178 28169445 375171 41684 0451529758 9780451529756 149 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1208195217m/41684.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1208195217s/41684.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41684.The_Jungle_Books 3.92 2762 1894 5 7 false Mon Aug 11 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Jul 24 10:55:11 -0700 2008 Mon Aug 11 21:07:46 -0700 2008
Once again, I'm struck by the savagery that resonates throughout Kipling's writing. It would be so easy to think of The Jungle Book in a more Disney-fied light: talking animals, singing, the rhythmic cadences of a fairy tale or lullaby. But overarching all that is the ever-present...more...]]> 1686171 118066 41684 0451529758 9780451529756 149 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1208195217m/41684.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1208195217s/41684.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41684.The_Jungle_Books 3.91 3014 1894 5 3 false Tue Jun 05 14:15:13 -0700 2007 Wed Dec 16 20:47:19 -0800 2009 more...]]> 23586341 83144 41684 0451529758 9780451529756 149 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1208195217m/41684.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1208195217s/41684.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41684.The_Jungle_Books 3.91 3014 1894 3 1 false Fri Jun 06 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Jun 03 04:26:30 -0700 2008 Sat Jun 07 05:04:28 -0700 2008 more...]]> 37331223 721497 41684 0451529758 9780451529756 149 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1208195217m/41684.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1208195217s/41684.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41684.The_Jungle_Books 3.91 3014 1894 4 1 false Mon Nov 10 10:09:24 -0800 2008 Mon Nov 10 10:27:05 -0800 2008 Edgar Sawtelle" made me long for my old friends. Old friends in Rikki Tikki Tavi and Toomai of the Elephants, but new discoveries, too, as I had never read the real Jungle Book with its stories o...more...]]> 38501082 932750 41684 0451529758 9780451529756 149 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1208195217m/41684.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1208195217s/41684.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41684.The_Jungle_Books 3.91 3014 1894 3 0 false Wed Nov 19 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Nov 23 20:28:09 -0800 2008 Sun Nov 23 20:50:35 -0800 2008
In some ways I was disappointed as an adult reader. The formal, quasi-E...more...]]> 80443663 2458421 4705307 0199536457 9780199536450 2 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4705307.The_Jungle_Books 3.69 16 The Jungle Books. Published in 1894 and 1895, the stories crackle with as much life and intensity as ever. Rudyard Kipling pours fuel on childhood fantasies with his tales of Mowgli, lost in the jungles of India as a child and adopted into a family of wolves. Mowgli is brought up on a diet of Jungle Law, loyalty, and fresh meat from the kill. Regular adventures with his friends and enemies among the Jungle-People--cobras, panthers, bears, and tigers--hone this man-cub's strength and cleverness and whet every reader's imagination. Mowgli's story is interspersed with other tales of the jungle, such as "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi," lending depth and diversity to our understanding of Kipling's India. In much the same way Mowgli is carried away by the Bandar-log monkeys, young readers will be caught up by the stories, swinging from page to page, breathless, thrilled, and terrified. (Ages 9 to 12)]]> 1894 3 0 false Wed Dec 09 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Dec 09 13:45:23 -0800 2009 Wed Dec 09 15:24:47 -0800 2009
The writing is a nice chan...more...]]> 20849627 1027339 41684 0451529758 9780451529756 149 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1208195217m/41684.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1208195217s/41684.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41684.The_Jungle_Books 3.91 3014 1894 5 1 false Wed Apr 23 21:24:31 -0700 2008 Wed Apr 23 21:24:31 -0700 2008 more...]]> 40693290 182191 41684 0451529758 9780451529756 149 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1208195217m/41684.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1208195217s/41684.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41684.The_Jungle_Books 3.91 3014 1894 5 0 false Sat Jan 03 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Dec 22 12:58:31 -0800 2008 Thu Jan 15 08:35:26 -0800 2009 more...]]> 53804242 2249729 41684 0451529758 9780451529756 149 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1208195217m/41684.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1208195217s/41684.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41684.The_Jungle_Books 3.91 3014 1894 4 0 false Fri Apr 24 02:46:59 -0700 2009 Fri Apr 24 02:51:00 -0700 2009
The only thing that kind of leaves a bad taste in my mouth is the author himself. Nothing to do with the book. The book rocks.

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I found it easier to get into the First Jungle Book than The Second Jungle Book (or as I like to call it, "The Empire Strikes Back"), but it could just be that I'd ...more...]]> 59399479 614561 41684 0451529758 9780451529756 149 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1208195217m/41684.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1208195217s/41684.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41684.The_Jungle_Books 3.91 3014 1894 4 0 false Fri Jun 12 08:49:06 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 12 08:51:24 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5955563 341481 41684 0451529758 9780451529756 149 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1208195217m/41684.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1208195217s/41684.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41684.The_Jungle_Books 3.91 3014 1894 4 0 false Sun Aug 30 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 09 15:31:55 -0700 2007 Sun Aug 30 18:11:57 -0700 2009
My favorite is probably one of the least known and the one most distinct from the others: The Miracle of Purun Bhagat. Purun Dass is a high-ranking and successful Indian politician...more...]]> 39250979 6485 41684 0451529758 9780451529756 149 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1208195217m/41684.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1208195217s/41684.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41684.The_Jungle_Books 3.91 3014 1894 4 0 false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Dec 03 19:33:22 -0800 2008 Mon Feb 02 12:51:07 -0800 2009 The Jungle Books more than The Graveyard Book, which is clearly derivative?

Was using the word "thou" a little less awkward back in 1894? ("Yes, that would make you a philistine," I can hear you say. But language is an integral part o...more...]]> 53281405 677158 41684 0451529758 9780451529756 149 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1208195217m/41684.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1208195217s/41684.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41684.The_Jungle_Books 3.91 3014 1894 3 0 false Sun Apr 19 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Apr 19 18:27:27 -0700 2009 Sun Apr 19 18:29:32 -0700 2009 more...]]> 10683818 349264 41684 0451529758 9780451529756 149 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1208195217m/41684.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1208195217s/41684.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41684.The_Jungle_Books 3.91 3014 1894 2 0 false Sun May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2005 Wed Dec 19 08:31:25 -0800 2007 Wed Dec 19 08:31:55 -0800 2007
I had forgotten that (contrary to Disney) only the first half of this book deals with Mowgli the Man-Cub and his ...more...]]> 73634673 169873 41684 0451529758 9780451529756 149 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1208195217m/41684.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1208195217s/41684.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41684.The_Jungle_Books 3.91 3014 1894 4 0 false Thu Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 06 10:16:18 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 06 10:19:11 -0700 2009 more...]]> 71756458 1590700 41684 0451529758 9780451529756 149 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1208195217m/41684.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1208195217s/41684.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41684.The_Jungle_Books 3.91 3014 1894 2 0 false Tue Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Sep 19 05:37:27 -0700 2009 Sat Sep 19 05:39:27 -0700 2009 more...]]> 8 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=1082369