Returning to the anarchic spirit of Kipling’s original Jungle Book, Rundell spins a new tale for Baloo, Shere Khan, Kaa, Bagheera and Mowgli, one of friendship, courage and joyful wildness.
Into the Jungle is a modern classic in the making, as Katherine Rundell creates charming and compelling origin stories for all Kipling's best-known characters, from Baloo and Shere Khan to Kaa and Bagheera. As Mowgli travels through the Indian jungle, this brilliantly visual tale, which weaves each short story together into a wider whole, will make readers both laugh and cry.
A gorgeously produced gift hardback with foiled cover, a ribbon marker and colour illustrations throughout by creative genius Kristjana S Williams, this is truly a book for all the family to treasure and share.
Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book, first published by Macmillan in 1894, is one of the most enduring books of children's literature, delighting generations of children. Katherine Rundell has taken this as the basis of her new and enchanting tale, sharing the early years of favourite characters and informing the creatures they become in Kipling's classic, with stories about family and friendship, loyalty and jungle law, and a final battle which will decide the future of the forest.
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
ISBN: 9781509822317
Number of pages: 240
Weight: 1048 g
Dimensions: 252 x 200 x 30 mm
Thank you to the publishers for this early review copy.
This book is a delight and I would say a MUST for Santa this year.
Beautiful illustrations.... and who doesn't love the characters of Jungle Book?
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I absolutely loved Into The Jungle. It was supremely readable, and this is a perfect addition to Mowgli's story. Rundell gives us new stories of some of the central characters of The Jungle Book, such as Kaa,... More
Into the Jungle is a beautiful book, gorgeously illustrated and sumptuously bound. The tales themselves are small marvels from one of the finest and most imaginative writers of children's books working today,... More
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