Rudyard Kipling

"Follow the adventures of Mowgli, a boy adopted by a family of wolves, and meet Baloo the bear and Bagheera the panther, who teach him how to survive in the jungle. There's a wonderful cast of other characters too--including Kotick the white seal and Rikki-tikki-tavi the mongoose--in this collection of well-loved stories."--Back cover.

The orphan Kim, whose father was an Irish soldier, makes his living by begging on the streets of Lahore and running errands. An aged Tibetan Lama is on a journey to find the mythical "River of the Arrow" and in doing so free himself from the Wheel of Things. Becoming his disciple, Kim joins the Lama to travel along the Grand Trunk Road. But Kim also gets himself involved in the Great Game, Russia and Britain's political conflict in Central Asia,

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Plain Tales from the Hills contains 40 stories written by Rudyard Kipling, the author of The Jungle Book and Kim. Published in 1888, this was the first short story collection by Kipling. With the geographical meaning of "Plain" contrasted with "Hills", the title's pun hints at both the cleverly simple narrative style of the stories, and that many of the them are situated in the Hill Station of Simla, which served as the British

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When Rudyard Kipling wrote the poem "If--" in 1909, he was addressing his 12-year-old son, John, who would die in battle a few short years later during World War I. The famous author's words, encouraging a code of living based on good morals, soon inspired a nation, and in recent years, the poem has been voted one of Great Britain's favorites.

A young boy raised by wolves' struggles to find his place as he can no longer live with them, nor can he live with the human villagers.

Naughty Crab keeps making trouble ... can the Wise Man stop him?

Into the Jungle is a modern classic in the making, as Katherine Rundell creates charming and compelling origin stories for all Kipling's best-loved 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. Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book, first published by Macmillan in 1894,...

Narrated by Orson Welles, Rikki Tikki Tavi is the story of a mongoose adopted by a British family. DVD includes Bonus Episode: Yankee Doodle Cricket.

Snow White: Snow White finds refuge with seven friendly dwarves as she flees her jealous step-mother. Hunchback of Notre Dame: A drama about a hunchback bellringer in the Cathedral of Notre Dame during the reign of Louis XI, who falls in love with a beautiful gypsy girl. Jungle book: Adventures of Mowgli, an orphan boy raised by wolves, who is encouraged to leave the jungle before the return of the fearsome man-eating tiger. With his loyal panther-friend...