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The Jungle Book (Jungle Book, #1)

Rudyard Kipling

Start date: December 1, 2017

Finish date: December 31, 2017

Discussion: Lesser Know/Wilderness Classics

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Jul 26, 2020 Radwa rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: middle-grade, historical-fiction, short-stories, classics, 2020-favorites

I'm so glad I waited this long to read this classic in this "Minalima" edition, because the illustration, art and production add another layer to the book.

The first few chapters are the main inspiration for the Disney movie with familiar characters like Mowgli and Balloo and Bagheera and the Wolf Pack and Shere Khan and others, with some big differences in characters portrayals and events, but the main gist is still there, then the following chapter deviate from these characters and tries to cap ...more

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Aug 23, 2019 Sarah rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: borrowed, audio

Came up as available on Overdrive, and I snagged it for this weeks audio adventure. I did not expect to like it. I did not love it; also not sorry to have listened to it. I think that I had read Mowgli's tale before, but the other stories about the seals, and the elephants, and Riki Tiki were all pretty good as both stories, and as examples of a certain era of literature. I think I liked the final story, about the military working animals having a little midnight chat. A cavalry horse, a transpo ...more

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Apr 05, 2021 K M Laume added it

I really like Kipling’s stories. Having only ever seen the Disney film I had no idea that it was only based on a few of the Jungle Book tales... as the Jungle Book is another collection of stories (like Kipling’s Just So Stories) and not all of them are about Mowgli or even the jungle! I think the one that I liked the most was about the white seal searching for a new home away from the human clubbers. It was a sweet tale which had a Greek myth feel to it. Kipling uses clever language and play on ...more

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