The National Gallery Masterpiece Classics: The Jungle Books

Rudyard Kipling, National Gallery Company Limit

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Interest age: from c 7 years, Classic fiction (Children's / Teenage)

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Welbeck Children's Books
- Hardback Jul 18, 2023 | 9781803381077 | RRP $32.99 Buy Now

Part of a new series of beloved children's classics featuring unique covers of famous artwork. Relive Mowgli's jungle adventures, in the original full text, in this new edition.

Relive Mowgli's adventures in this brand-new edition of Rudyard Kipling's classics, The Jungle Books. Produced in association with the UK's National Gallery, the dustjacket of this handsome new edition features Henri Rousseau's famous 1891 jungle scene, Surprised! This book includes expert notes on the original art and its relationship to the classic stories.

Featuring the full original text of both The Jungle Book and The Second Jungle Book, these collections of short stories tell the unforgettable tale of Mowgli, the man-cub abandoned in the Indian jungle, and his animal friends and foes. They also feature such well-known poems and stories as 'Rikki-Tikki-Tavi' and 'The Law of the Jungle'. It's the perfect gift for young readers, or anyone who wants a beautifully bound edition of this classic story.

This volume is part of the new Masterpiece Classics series from Welbeck, which includes Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

Rudyard Kipling

Born in Bombay, India, but raised in England from the age of five, Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) is today best known as the author of such classics of literature as The Jungle Book (1894), Kim (1902) and Just So Stories (1902). He returned to India in 1882 to become a journalist and local newspaper editor and began writing supernatural stories set in his native continent. Kipling was the first British writer to be award the Nobel Prize for Literature, in 1907.