book review

BOOK REVIEW

Book name                 The Jungle Book

Author                         Rudyard Kipling

Publisher                    Collins classics

                      Harper press London

Price                           125rs

Pages                       212

Accn no.                     684

I.S.B.N                                  978-0-00-735085-8

Publication year      2010

Cover by                   e- Digital Design

Cover photograph    R. Reitmeyer

Gist   -------

When the Jungle book is mentioned most people think of the Disney animated film. This actually has very little to do with the stories of Rudyard Kiplling as Walt Disney only took the basic idea of anthropomorphic jungle animal and transform them in to lovable children characters. Best known for the Mogli stories Rudyad Kipling’s the jungle book expertly interweaves myth, morals, adventure and powerful story-telling set in central India Mowgli his raised by a pack of Wolves along the way he encounters memorable characters such as the foreboding tiger Sher Khan, Bagheera the panther and Baloo the bear in cluding other stories such as the of Rikki-Tikki-Tavi, a heroic mongoose and Toomai, a young elephant handler, Kipling’s fables remain as popular today a s they ever were.

About Author: Rudyard Kipling was born in Mumbai. He was born in 1865 at the age of 6 Kipling was send to England to continue his education. In 1907 he won the Noble Prize for Literature. And he died in 1936.

Moral : This book is all time favrioute book of children. It’s a great entertainment to them and also provide moral lessons to them. A library without this book can not be imagined.

By:

Shashikala Mathur

Librarian

KV Uttarlai (Jaipur Region)