The Jungle Book Large Print Edition By Rudyard Kipling Tutis Digital Publishing (2008), 292 pages ISBN: 978-8184568479 Genre: Classics, Children's Literature

Reviewed by Israel Drazin - January 3, 2011

The delightful tales in The Jungle Book can and should be enjoyed by young and old. Mowgli, a human child in India, is rescued by wolves and raised by them with wolf brothers and sisters by wolf parents, after an evil lame tiger chased away his human parents. The tiger who not only kills humans wants to control the wolf pact. He insists to the wolves that Mowgli belongs to him. Mowgli has many adventures among the wolves and later among humans. Once, for instance, he was captured when he was ten or eleven years old by monkeys, who are portrayed as stupid forgetful creatures in the book. He is saved during a lengthy battle by Bagheera the black panther who loves him and by Baloo the bear that is his instructor, as well as the python Kaa who respects him. Mowgli leaves the jungle and goes to live in the human village. He thinks that people act and think strangely, speak foolishly, and believe that they can change things which Mowgli knows cannot be changed. These are just some of Mowgli's many adventures. The book also contains exploits by many different animals, such as the story of the white seal that saves other seals from being killed by men for their skins, the mongoose who rescues a family from husband and wife cobras, and a boy who sees elephants dance.

• The Man Who Would Be King and Other Short Works, by Rudyard Kipling.
  A collection of seventeen short stories written while Kipling was working as a journalist in India. The Man Who Would Be King is the cenerpoint of this collection.
  
  
• Otto of the Silver Hand, by Howard Pyle.
  A delightful adventure / fairy tale set in Medieval Germany that follows Otto as he struggles to secure his birth right.