The jungle books

Among the best loved of all childrens classics, Rudyard Kiplings The Jungle Book is set among a community of animals in the jungles of India, where Kipling was born and grew up.

Three of the stories feature the adventures of an abandoned man cub, a boy named Mowgli, who is raised by wolves in the jungle.

Other well-known stories in the collection include Rikki-Tikki-Tavi, the tale of a heroic mongoose who outwits vicious cobras in order to save his human benefactors, and Toomai of the Elephants, the story of a ten-year-old elephant-handler.This edition includes black-and-white illustrations by Kurt Wiese and William Henry Drake.From the Hardcover edition.