Tim's review
The Jungle Books (Signet Classics)
by Rudyard Kipling
Tim's review
The Jungle Books (Signet Classics) by Rudyard Kipling
Tim's review
rating:
Have been reading this book to the girls - after putting them to bed tonight I picked it up again and finished it. It's an old, yellowish, and cracking edition - different from the Signet here - but the one I read growing up. It is a remarkable story, so much deeper and darker than the cotton candy Disney served up (or frankly that Edgar Rice Burroughs served up in its wake). Baloo and Kaa are serious characters and Mowgli's interactions with the Man-pack much grimmer (and more human) than the cartoon's ending. And Rikki-Tikki-Tavi remains, with the Elephant's Child, one of my favorite children's stories - full of moral clarity and the necessity of duty and responsibility, as well as the necessary details of how a mongoose kills snakes.
