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Mowgli, the 'man-cub', is raised by wolves in the jungle in India. His friends are Baloo the bear and Bagheera the Panther, and their enemy is the ferocious tiger Shere Khan. Mowgli's life is filled with adventure-and a thrilling chance to become a true hero of the jungle.... More

How did the camel get his hump? Why won't cats do as they are told? Who invented reading and writing? How did an inquisitive little elephant change the lives of elephants everywhere? Kipling's imagined answers to such questions draw on the beast fables he heard as a child in India, as well as on fol... More

First published in 1894 and 1895, The Jungle Books remain some of the most beloved tales of all time.Adored by readers of all ages, these classic stories in two volumes spin the unforgettable story of Mowgli -- a boy raised by a pack of wolves -- as he learns indelible lessons about the laws of the ... More

Kim, a young Irish orphan, is brought up in the native quarter of Lahore. While he is accompanying a Tibetan lama on his search for the River of Immortality, Kim is picked up by the British and groomed for the Secret Service. His first assignment is to capture the papers of a Russian spy in the Hima... More

The Volume IncludeThe Crab that Played with the SeaThe Sing-song of Old Man KangarooHow the First Letter was WrittenBorn in Bombay in 1865, Rudyard Kipling went to England to finish his studies and came back and lived in India for several years. He wrote a number of poems and tales, establishing him... More

The volume includes The Beginning of the Armadilloes, How the Rhinoceros Got his Skin and How the Alphabet was Made Kipling began to visit South Africa regularly after 1898, where he began writing the Just So Stories. This collection shows an unusual sympathy with the children he was writing fo... More

5 tales, including 'The Man Who Would Be King' and 'My Own True Ghost Story'5 tales, including 'The Man Who Would Be King' and 'My Own True Ghost Story'... More