The Jungle Book, one of the most famous children’s books today, buoyed by multiple Disney film adaptations, is now available in an unabridged paperback edition including Rudyard Kipling’s fantastical short story collection Just So Stories.
This Children’s Signature Classics edition will include both
The Jungle Book and
Just So Stories, a that whimsically explores animals’ origins, like how the zebra got its stripes.
The Jungle Book’s story of survival, belonging, and growing up is perfect for young readers’ libraries.
Om författaren
Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936) was born in Bombay (now Mumbai), India.
The Jungle Book, which he published in 1894, became a children’s classic all over the world. Tales of every kind continued to flow from Kipling’s pen, including
Kim (1901) and
Just So Stories (1902). Kipling was the first English writer to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, and in 1926 he received the Gold Medal of the Royal Society of Literature.