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Title: The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling, Jerry Pinkney ISBN: 0-688-09979-3 Publisher: William Morrow Pub. Date: 27 September, 1995 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.4 (5 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: All time favorite
Comment: The Jungle Book is now one of my all time favorite books. When you read the book it makes you feel like you're there too. I like the way Rudyard Kipling has the animals talk. The main character in the story is a boy named Mowgli. Mowgli was abandoned by his mother and father and raised by wolves. I think
Mowgli is the perfect character for the story because he is brave, smart, and kind.The part I disliked the most in the story is when they keep going to the council rock. I thought it was boring. I liked the excitement in the book and the cliff hangers. Once I picked up the book I couldn't set it down again. I definitely recommend this book to anybody who is in for a challenge!
Rating: 4
Summary: Not as marred in adaptation as others
Comment: While I admire Disney's animation (and am looking forward to their Hamlet-ish The Lion King), I usually gripe about the changes they make in their movies from their source material. All one has to do is read the original Pinocchio, Peter Pan, or, supposedly, Bambi, to berate them for destroying classics. I probably should be bothered as well by their Jungle Book, except that I think that it was one of the cases where the marriage of animation, story and music achieves more than the original. Without the source material, it would be nothing, of course, but the wonderful songs (who can forget "Bare Necessities," "Trust in Me," or "I Wanna Be Like You"?) and the structure that turned Kipling's short tales into a two-hour movie create a gestalt that I'm not sure Kipling's tales do by themselves. This is probably sacrilege to the ears of the true Kipling fan, but I'm nothing if not opinionated.
The stories that make up the Jungle Book aren't solely about Mowgli, though, and it's the others, especially "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi," that make this a definate must have.
Rating: 5
Summary: I finally have my own copy
Comment: I grew up reading and re-reading theses stories. I never found a compilation of the Mowgli stories I liked though, at least not an affordable one.
This one gave me not only Mowgli but Rikki-tikki-tavi. All with excellent illustrations that add but do not intrude on the stories.
This is a classic that should be on every bookshelf.
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Title: Rikki-Tikki-Tavi by Jerry Pinkney, Rudyard Kipling ISBN: 0688143202 Publisher: William Morrow Pub. Date: 26 September, 1997 List Price(USD): $16.99 |
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Title: Kim (Penguin Classics) by Rudyard Kipling, Edward W. Said ISBN: 0140183523 Publisher: Puffin Pub. Date: August, 1992 List Price(USD): $7.00 |
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Title: Captains Courageous by Rudyard Kipling ISBN: 0451523814 Publisher: New American Library Pub. Date: August, 1989 List Price(USD): $3.95 |
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Title: Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson ISBN: 0517221144 Publisher: Gramercy Pub. Date: 03 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $16.99 |
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Title: The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling ISBN: 0812504690 Publisher: Tor Books Pub. Date: 15 February, 1992 List Price(USD): $2.99 |
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