Jungle Book: Treasury Of Illustrated Classics

Mowgli, the boy raised by wolves, is a childhood favorite of all. Mowgli’s adventures among such unforgettable characters as Shere Khan the tiger, Baloo the bear and Bagheera the panther will thrill young readers as they travel with him. As he grows, Mowgli learns the ways of animal life and takes these lessons back into the world of man.

About The Author:

Rudyard Kipling was born on 30 December 1865 in Bombay, British India, to Alice Kipling (née MacDonald) and (John) Lockwood Kipling. Alice Kipling (one of four remarkable Victorian sisters)[12] was a vivacious woman[13] about whom a future Viceroy of India would say, "Dullness and Mrs. Kipling cannot exist in the same room."[1] Lockwood Kipling, a sculptor and pottery designer, was the principal and professor of architectural sculpture at the newly founded Jejeebhoy School of Art and Industry in Bombay.[13] The couple, who had moved to India earlier that year, had met in courtship two years before at Rudyard Lake in rural Staffordshire, England, and had been so taken by its beauty that they now named their firstborn after it.[14] Kipling's birthplace home still stands on the campus of the Sir J.J. Institute of Applied Art in Mumbai and is now the Dean's residence...