The Jungle Book
Price
$5.30
Format
Hardcover
Pages
216
Publisher
Publishers Group Canada
Publication Date
Reprint edition (August 23, 2016
ISBN-13
978-1909621817
Dimensions
4.1 x 0.53 x 6.29 inches
Weight
3.53 ounces
Description
Rudyard Kipling was the author of The Jungle Book , Captains Courageous , and Kim .Anxa0internationally recognized expert on Sherlock Holmes and Conan Doyle, David Stuart Davies is the editor of the crime fiction magazine Sherlock and the author of several books on Sherlock Holmes.xa0He also edits the Crime Writers' Association's monthly Red Herrings magazine. Forests of the Night was his first Johnny Hawke novel. He lives in West Yorkshire, England.
Features & Highlights
- Designed to appeal to the book lover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautifully bound pocket-sized gift editions of much loved classic titles. Bound in real cloth, printed on high quality paper, and featuring ribbon markers and gilt edges, Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure.
- The Jungle Book
- shows Kipling's writing for children at its best. It is a collection of short stories and poems revolving round the boy Mowgli, who was raised by a pack of wolves in India. We meet the tiger Shere Khan who attacked and drove off Mowgli's parent, Bagheera, the black panher, Baloo, 'the sleepy brown bear', and the evil python, Kaa. Other stories include Rikki-Tikki-Tavi, The White Seal and Toomai of the Elephants, and the book contains the original illustrations of J. Lockwood Kipling (Rudyard's father) and W. H. Drake.With an Afterword by David Stuart Davies.
