No child should be allowed to grow up without reading 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) This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.