| The Jungle Book Contributor(s): Kipling, Rudyard (Author) |
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ISBN: 1721231595 ISBN-13: 9781721231591 Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform OUR PRICE: $6.60 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Fantasy - General - Fiction | Action & Adventure - Fiction | Classics |
| Lexile Measure: 1100 |
| Series: Classic Rudyard Kipling |
| Physical Information: 0.21" H x 7.01" W x 10" (0.42 lbs) 102 pages |
| Accelerated Reader Info |
| Quiz #: 130966 Reading Level: 3.0 Interest Level: Middle Grades Point Value: 0.5 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The Jungle Book by By Rudyard Kipling. The Jungle Book (1894) is a collection of stories by the English author Rudyard Kipling. Most of the characters are animals such as Shere Khan the tiger and Baloo the bear, though a principal character is the boy or "man-cub" Mowgli, who is raised in the jungle by wolves. The stories are set in a forest in India; one place mentioned repeatedly is "Seonee," in the central state of Madhya Pradesh. A major theme in the book is abandonment followed by fostering, as in the life of Mowgli, echoing Kipling's own childhood. The theme is echoed in the triumph of protagonists including Rikki-Tikki-Tavi and The White Seal over their enemies, as well as Mowgli's. Another important theme is of law and freedom; the stories are not about animal behaviour, still less about the Darwinian struggle for survival, but about human archetypes in animal form. |