The Jungle Book: Mowgli's Story (Walker Illustrated Classics) - Softcover

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Rudyard Kipling was born in Bombay in 1865. Although educated in England, he returned to India as an adult and worked as a journalist. There, he produced stories, sketches and poems that made him a literary celebrity when he returned to England in 1889.

Nicola Bayley is a gifted illustrator best known for her loving, detailed illustrations of cats. Nicola studied Graphic Design at St Martin’s College and then Illustration at the Royal College of Art. She specialised in cats and has illustrated a wide rand of children’s books including "The Necessary Cat", "Katje the Windmill Cat", "The Curious Cat" and an extravagant new edition of Rudyard Kipling’s classic "The Jungle Book". Her work is both admired and acclaimed. In 2001, Nicola was short listed for the Kate Greenaway Medal for "Katje the Windmill Cat" and "The Mousehole Cat" was the winner of the British Book Award for the Illustrated Children's Book of the Year and the British Design Production Award (Children's Books).