Synopses & Reviews
Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - It was seven o'clock of a very warm evening in the Seeonee hills when Father Wolf woke up from his day's rest, scratched himself, yawned, and spread out his paws one after the other to get rid of the sleepy feeling in their tips. Mother Wolf lay with her big gray nose dropped across her four tumbling, squealing cubs, and the moon shone into the mouth of the cave where they all lived. Augrh! said Father Wolf. It is time to hunt again. He was going to spring down hill when a little shadow with a bushy tail crossed the threshold and whined: Good luck go with you, O Chief of the Wolves. And good luck and strong white teeth go with noble children that they may never forget the hungry in this world. It was the jackal - Tabaqui, the Dish - licker - and the wolves of India despise Tabaqui because he runs about making mischief, and telling tales, and eating rags and pieces of leather from the village rubbish-heaps.{
Synopsis
Action, adventure, and excitement spill from the pages of The Jungle Books, as Rudyard Kipling tells stories of people and animals in magical, mysterious India. Most of the tales focus on Mowgli the man-cub, a boy raised by wolves whose animal friends help him gain the strength and wisdom he needs for his frightful fight with Shere Khan the tiger. But there are also the tales of Rikki-Tikki-Tavi the mongoose and his great war against the cobras Nag and Nagaina; of Toomai who watches the elephants dance, and of Kotick the white seal, who swims in the Bering Sea. This edition includes both the original Jungle Book (1894) and The Second Jungle Book (1895), written in response to the original's enormous success.