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From the author of The Jungle Book and Kim, Just So Stories is the perfect combination of education and fun to get kids to love reading. It is considered not only a quintessential children's book, but one of Kipling's best works.
How did the elephant get its trunk? How did the leopard get its spots? And how was the alphabet made? Rudyard Kipling's classic collection of fables answers the great questions of animal and humankind in a fun, eloquent...
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How the Camel Got His Hump” - is a fascinating fairy-tale by the incomparable English writer Rudyard Kipling about the way one lazy and sniffy camel refused to help the other animals. He was punished for that: a magic gin awarded him with a huge hump for the wild beast to be able to work continuously.
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From the author of The Jungle Book comes a magical fantasy story, rich in historical detail and filled with intrigue and excitementUna and Dan, reciting Shakespeare on a summer's evening in rural Sussex, unwittingly summon the elf Puck. They are taken on a fantastic journey through Britain's past, their magical companion plucking from history an array of fascinating characters for them to meet: Parnesius, a Roman centurion who manned Hadrian's wall;...
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Raised by a pack of wolves, the little boy known as Mowgli forms the human heart of an animal community in the Indian wilderness. These selections from The Jungle Book, The Second Jungle Book, and Many Inventions offer a chronological presentation of every episode from Rudyard Kipling's beloved tales of a feral child. This edition of the stories, all except one of which were originally published in magazines in 1893 and 1894, includes the charming...
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The Jungle Book introduces Mowgli, the human foundling adopted by a family of wolves. It tells of the enmity between him and the tiger Shere Khan, who killed Mowgli's parents, and of the friendship between the man-cub and Bagheera, the black panther, and Baloo, the sleepy brown bear, who instructs Mowgli in the Laws of the Jungle. The Second Jungle Book contains some of the most thrilling of the Mowgli stories. It includes Red Dog, in which Mowgli...
6) Mowgli
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'Mowgli’ is a legendary collection of stories by the world-famous English writer and poet Joseph Rudyard Kipling (Eng. Joseph Rudyard Kipling, 1865-1936). This is an unbelievable story of the human child, who was, found in jungles and reared, up by the wolves. The baby grows in the pack and learns to survive in the conditions of the wild nature, and his devoted friends help him in doing that, they are, the bear Baloo, the panther Bagheera and the...
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Inhalt:
Das Dschungelbuch:
Moglis Brüder
Jagdgesang des Sioni-Rudels
Kaas Jagdtanz
Wanderlied des Affenvolkes
"Tiger-Tiger!"
Moglis Siegeslied
Die weiße Robbe
Lukannon
Rikki-Tikki-Tavi
Darsies Siegesgesang
Toomai, der Liebling der Elefanten
Schiwa und die Heuschrecke
Das neue Dschungelbuch:
Wie Angst kam
Das Gesetz der Dschungel
Das Wunder des Purun Baghat
Ein Sang des Kabir
Die Dschungel los!
Moglis Gesang wider die Menschen
Die Leichenbestatter
Lied...
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These stories, first published in 1902, are pour quoi stories: fantastic accounts of how various phenomena came about. A forerunner of these stories is "How Fear Came" in The Second Jungle Book (1895), in which Mowgli hears the story of how the tiger got his stripes.
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This carefully edited collection has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices.
Table of Contents:
Novels:
The Light That Failed
Captain Courageous: A Story of the Grand Banks
Kim
The Naulahka: A Story of West and East
Stalky and Co.
Short Story Collections:
The City of Dreadful Night
Plain Tales from the Hills
Soldier's Three (The Story of the Gadsbys)
Soldier's Three - Part II
The Phantom...
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A a young mongoose named Rikki-Tikki-Tavi is adopted into a British family residing in India. After becoming friendly with some of the other creatures inhabiting the garden, Rikki is warned of two cobras Nag and Nagaina, who are angered by the family's presence on their territory.
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The Boys' Adventure Megapack collects 20 great adventure stories for boys, from classics like "The Call of the Wild" to war stories like the adventures of Dave Dawson, from science fiction like Tom Swift, Jr. to historical fiction like Tarzan of the Apes and The Count of Monte Cristo. Rollicking adventure stories for the young and young at heart!
Included are:
THE CALL OF THE WILD, by Jack London
TREASURE ISLAND, by Robert Louis Stevenson
KIDNAPPED,...
14) Rikki Tikki Tavi
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A 19th-century English family discovers a young mongoose half drowned from a flood. They revive it and decide to keep it as a pet. The young mongoose, named Rikki Tikki Tavi, finds himself confronted by two dangerous king cobras, Nag and his even more dangerous wife Nagin, who had the run of the garden while the house was unoccupied. The exciting adventures of Rikki-Tikki-Tavi, the little mongoose, will be a wonderful teacher of true love, devoted...
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Captains Courageous is a novel by Rudyard Kipling, that follows the adventures of fifteen-year-old Harvey Cheyne Jr., the spoiled son of a railroad tycoon, after he is saved from drowning by a Portuguese fisherman in the north Atlantic.
The book's title comes from the ballad "Mary Ambree", which starts, "When captains courageous, whom death could not daunt". Kipling had previously used the same title for an article on businessmen as the new adventurers,...
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Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories is one of the best-loved story collections ever written for children. In this companion to Volume I, published in fall 2013, acclaimed children's book illustrator Ian Wallace once again reinterprets the famous tales with luminous art, bringing Kipling to a new generation of young readers. Many of the tales are origin stories, explaining, for example, how an animal came to be, or the how the alphabet and writing began....
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Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories is one of the best-loved story collections ever written for children. Now Ian Wallace, one of Canada's most accomplished children's book illustrators, reinterprets the famous tales with his vibrant art, bringing Kipling to a whole new generation of young readers. Kipling wrote the stories for his young daughter, who would only sleep if they were told "just so." The first edition was published in Great Britain in 1902,...
18) Animal Stories
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Animal Stories – by Rudyard Kipling features some of the best-loved animal tales of all time. "The Camel's Hump," "The Cat That Walked By Himself" and "The White Seal" are just some of the enchanting tales collected together in Animal Stories, which includes that most remarkable and endearing creation "Rikki-tikki-tavi." Originally intended for children, these imaginative and inspired writings are just as suitable for adults and will delight readers...
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This vintage book contains Rudyard Kipling's 1897 novel, "Captains Courageous". A fifteen-year-old boy called Harvey Cheyne Jr. is rescued by a Portuguese sailor in the North Atlantic. After refusing to deliver Harvey to the nearest port, the captain of the boat suggests that the boy join the crew on their fishing trip, which turns out to be full of adventures and travails. This book is highly recommended for those who have read and enjoyed other...
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Experiencing a story read out loud is one of the oldest forms of entertainment there is. Fireside Reading is a way to slow down, reconnect with the timeless wisdom of great books and rediscover the simple pleasure of being read to. Join Gildart Jackson in front of a cozy fire as he reads The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling to you and your family from beginning to end.
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