The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling
Language: English
Pages: 206
ISBN: 1940177596
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
Best known for the 'Mowgli' stories, Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book expertly interweaves myth, morals, adventure and powerful storytelling. Set in Central India, Mowgli is raised by a pack of wolves. Along the way he encounters memorable characters such as the foreboding tiger Shere Kahn, Bagheera the panther and Baloo the bear. Including other stories such as that of Rikki-Tikki-Tavi, a heroic mongoose and Toomai, a young elephant handler, Kipling's fables remain as popular today as they ever were.
listened to him he was shouting at the top of his voice: ‘And so I shall have a tribe of my own, and lead them through the branches all day long.’ ‘What is this new folly, little dreamer of dreams?’ said Bagheera. ‘Yes, and throw branches and dirt at old Baloo,’ Mowgli went on. ‘They have promised me this. Ah!’ ‘Whoof!’ Baloo’s big paw scooped Mowgli off Bagheera’s back, and as the boy lay between the big forepaws he could see the Bear was angry. ‘Mowgli,’ said Baloo, ‘thou hast been talking
little fellow did not understand the words at first. He paddled and scrambled about by his mother’s side, and learned to scuffle out of the way when his father was fighting with another seal, and the two rolled and roared up and down the slippery rocks. Matkah used to go to sea to get things to eat, and the baby was fed only once in two days; but then he ate all he could, and throve upon it. The first thing he did was to crawl inland, and there he met tens of thousands of babies of his own age,
elephant-folk have trampled down more room in their dance-room, and they will find ten and ten, and many times ten, tracks leading to that dance-room. They made more room with their feet. I have seen it. Kala Nag took me, and I saw. Also Kala Nag is very leg-weary!’ Little Toomai lay back and slept all through the long afternoon and into the twilight, and while he slept Petersen Sahib and Machua Appa followed the track of the two elephants for fifteen miles across the hills. Petersen Sahib had
you would want to learn beforehand, for instance, how to build and light a fire. Kipling was inspired to write The Jungle Book by his encounters with Indian culture and storytelling. Try to find out some interesting facts about village life in colonial India. AN EXPLORER’S GUIDE TO KIPLING’S INDIA Nature – its enormous size and geographical location mean that India’s geography has everything you can imagine, from beautiful beaches, snow-capped mountains and rainforests to deserts and plains.
must learn all the Law of the Jungle.’ ‘But think how small he is,’ said the Black Panther, who would have spoiled Mowgli if he had had his own way. ‘How can his little head carry all thy long talk?’ ‘Is there anything in the Jungle too little to be killed? No. That is why I teach him these things, and that is why I hit him, very softly, when he forgets.’ ‘Softly! What dost thou know of softness, old Iron-feet?’ Bagheera grunted. ‘His face is all bruised today by thy – softness. Ugh!’ ‘Better