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A beautiful Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book classic edition, featuring 55 original illustrations.
The Jungle Book is a collection of stories written by Rudyard Kipling, set in a forest in India, these stories capture the timeless appeal of Mowgli’s childhood amidst animals and the wild.
Meet Mowgli, a precocious young boy who lives in the Jungle with the wolves and the rest of the wild animals and his friends, the wolves, Bagheera the black panther and Baloo, the bear. Including other stories such as that of Kaa’s Hunting, Tiger! Tiger!, The White Seal, Rikki-Tikki-Tavi, Toomai of the Elephants, and Her Majesty’s Servants.
The Jungle Book expertly interweaves myth, morals, adventure and powerful story-telling. Journey with Mowgli on his adventures and capers with the animals in the forest. Kipling’s fables remain as popular today as they ever were.

Rudyard Kipling was born in India in 1865 and spent his early years reveling in the country's exotic delights. At five he was sent to school in England, and did not returned until 1882, when he worked as a reporter on the 'Civil and Military Gazette'. A prolific writer, he soon became famous for a prodigious range of tales and poems, from the high adventure of 'The Man Who Would Be King', through the gritty doggerel of 'Barrack Room Ballads' to charming children's story such as 'Puck of Pook's Hill' and 'The Jungle Book'. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1907.