Rudyard Kipling

Presents the three adventures of Mowgli, a young boy raised by the animals in an Indian jungle, as well as other animal stories and songs. Includes discussion questions and explanatory notes.

On Midsummer's Eve, Dan and Una enact A Midsummer Night's Dream three times over—right under Pook's Hill. That is how they meet Puck, "the oldest Old Thing in England," and the last of the People of the Hills.

Through Puck, they are introduced to the nearly forgotten pages of old England's history and to characters that can illuminate their own historical predicaments. The god Weland is freed from an unwanted heathen immortality by

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Presents the adventures of Mowgli, a boy reared by a pack of wolves and the wild animals of the jungle. Also includes other short stories set in India.

The Complete Jungle Book is a beautiful collection of Rudyard Kipling's beloved The Jungle Book, The Second Jungle Book, and Just So Stories. Mowgli and friends are brought vividly to life in Stuart Tresilian's original illustrations, rendered in full-color for this special edition.

When the world was new, the camel, a creature of 'scruciating idleness, said "Humph!" too often and received for all time a hump[h] from the Djinn of All Deserts.

Relates how a clever little fish and a mariner of "infinite-resource-and-sagacity" modify the whale's throat to keep him from devouring all the fish in the ocean.

Relates how the greyish-yellowish-brownish leopard came by his spots.