The Jungle Book: A Story about Loyalty

Title

en_US The Jungle Book: A Story about Loyalty

en_US Famous Fables

en_US FF21

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US First printing

en_US Retold by Jane Arlington

Creator

en_US Arlington, Jane See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Schick, Joel

Date

2016-01-25T20:35:57Z

en_US 2012-07

en_US 2006

Date Available

2016-01-25T20:35:57Z

Date Issued

en_US 2006

Abstract

en_US I include this book in the collection not because I think The Jungle Book should be viewed as a fable but because this volume is part of a series that is labeled Famous Fables. This twenty-page children's picture book extends onto its back endpaper with tips for parents, including strategies, discussion questions, and activities that grow out of the story. The Jungle Book, which I have not read before, is perhaps the most complex book in this series. As Wikipedia says, The best-known of them [the stories in 'The Jungle Book'] are the three stories revolving around the adventures of an abandoned 'man cub' Mowgli who is raised by wolves in the Indian jungle. I was surprised first to come across Akela, a name which I remember from my Cub Scout days. I was next surprised to learn that Robert Baden-Powell asked Kiplilng's permission to take over material from Kipling's jungle world and apply it to scouting. For me, this book shifts stories too often within its narrow confines. It seems clear to me, however, that our hearts are meant to be with Mowgli.

Identifier

en_US 9781599390239

en_US 8953 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/84158

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Reader's Digest Young Families

en_US Pleasantville, NY

Subject

en_US PZ8.2.F368 Jun 2006 See all items with this value

en_US One story See all items with this value

en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole