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

About this book

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.