false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178864110m/847707.jpg 41684 235 No child should be allowed to grow up without reading <I>The Jungle Books</I>. 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. <I>(Ages 9 to 12)</I> 3183592 1894 The Jungle Books (Signet Classics) total:3116|5:904|4:1193|3:862|2:135|1:22| 3116 12170 4360 192 5 7 false 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...]]> 5 3 false false Tue Jun 05 14:15:13 -0700 2007 Tue Jun 05 14:19:00 -0700 2007 more...]]> 3 1 false false Fri Dec 05 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Apr 13 00:20:06 -0700 2009 Sun Apr 26 02:10:03 -0700 2009
"The boy could climb almost as well as he could swim,...more...]]> 3 1 false 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...]]> 4 1 false 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...]]> 4 1 false false Fri Aug 28 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 28 10:16:38 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 28 20:30:54 -0700 2009 1 Jungle Books - "Mowgli's Brother"; "Kaa's Hunting"; and "Tiger! Tiger!"

Kipling's prose impressed me with it's poetry and imaginative metaphors. A beautiful love letter to his adopte...more...]]> 3 0 false 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...]]> 5 1 false false Wed Apr 23 21:24:31 -0700 2008 Wed Apr 23 21:24:31 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false 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...]]> 4 0 false 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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Ao contrário do que esperava inicialmente, a escrita de Kipling não é simples como parece!
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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...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Nov 06 07:00:27 -0800 2009 Fri Nov 06 07:09:30 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Jul 09 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 20 23:13:40 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 12 07:32:22 -0700 2009 1 more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Jun 12 08:49:06 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 12 08:51:24 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false 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...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=847707