The Jungle Book: Illustrated by Kurt Wiese and William Henry Drake (Everyman's Library Children's Classics Series)

Among the best loved of all childrens classics Rudyard Kiplings The Jungle Bookis 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.