![]() ![]() The stories are not merely about animals and their characteristics, but about human archetypes in animal form. ![]() Layered in a cunning and most sophisticated way, the adventures of Mowgli and the various animals in these stories entertain and thrill youngsters in a fairy-tale manner and yet, for the mature reader, they highlight concerns about the structure and control of society and human behaviour. ![]() We follow his growth from jungle boyhood, and his relationship with the animals to his eventual return to human service as a forest ranger. The sequence of stories about the boy Mowgli accidentally thrust out of the human community into the jungle forms the core of these collections of short stories and poems. The Jungle Books by Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) are among those rare volumes which appeal to and indeed speak to both children and adults. The Jungle Book David Stuart Davies looks at Kipling’s enduringly popular collection of stories. ![]()
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