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... think of The Graveyard Book. I enjoyed it and hope you do too!
#146: Ronin, I know you said that it was modeled after The Jungle Book, but I didn't realize Gaiman had borrowed quite that much! It does explain that seemingly abrupt foray into a new world. I've already put The Jungle Book on ... You know what? I might go ahead and read The Graveyard Book first, to get the full impact, and then go back and read The Jungle Book afterwards. Just to appreciate how Gaiman adapted it fully. And to enjoy another true classic. I think that the similarities may have prevented me from ... Just stopping by to wave and say I'm starring your thread. I think I'll be adding The Jungle Book to my wishlist!
edited to try and fix touchstone Vellum: The Book of All Hours by Hal Duncan
The Book of Nod by Sam Chupp
Cain's Book by Alexander Trocchi
The Jungle Book by Ruyard Kipling
The Calvin and Hobbes Lazy Sunday Book by Bill Watterson ... I got the collected works of Rudyard Kipling in a two volume set years ago so that I could have that book, Kim and The Jungle Book all in one place! Black Notice by Patricia Cornwell
The Blackboard Jungle by Evan Hunter
The Enchanted Jungle by Stephen G. Chaffee
The Last Enchantment by Mary Stewart
Some Enchanted Evening by Christina Dodd ... recommended to be in about every relevant discussion of feminism I've ever been involved in so I though I'd better read it. The Jungle Book - I think I picked this up at a school jumble sale back when I was still young enough to attend school jumble sales.
The planet dweller - Something I ... ... be re-donating it to the library so they can sell it again in their next sale - not worth keeping.
103. (138) The Jungle Book - Rudyard Kipling (134pp)
This was another one of my 'goals to read' this year (on the basis that I really should have done so in my life before now). Once ... The Jungle Book so far a fun read. ... importance, yada, yada, yada. They just creep me out. Needless to say, I don't read books about snakes either, even the Jungle Book kind of gave me the willies. ... and Terrible Beauty, Libba Bray -YA historical fiction- *read*
5. The Empire of Tea -history-
6. The Jungle Book (1894), Rudyard Kipling -children's-
7. The Moonstone (1868), Wilkie Collins -mystery-
8. The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgso ... ... in whose care I was often placed. She only left me alone when I was reading. I can't tell you the number of times I read The Jungle Book. Reading was a safety net.
So many books mentioned raise good memories, Charlotte's Web, Trixie Belden, Nancy Drew, Black Beauty (which apparently ... ... a "great books" reading group for the advanced readers in 5th and 6th. One of the books we had to read in that group was The Jungle Book and I do remember feeling rather bogged down in parts, but I also remember liking it. That is also where I read A Christmas Carol for the first time. I ... ... of the books she quoted refused to appeal to me. There is no question that Tom Sawyer, Huck Finn, Treasure Island and The Jungle Book are well-written, excellent books, but I find them all repulsive and always have, and there's nothing I can do about it.
59. The Book Thief by Markus ... ... of the previous ones...
Professor Moriarty Vs. The Insidious Fu Manchu in a Supervillain fight
Shere-Khan from The Jungle Book Vs The Cowardly Lion from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
The woman from Chocolat Vs. Willy Wonka from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory in a battle of ... ... got a charming book called Yoga For Cats for 2 Aussie bucks, and a Hardcover Anthology of Rudyard Kipling containing The Jungle Book, The Second Jungle Book, Just So Stories, Puck of Pook's Hill, Stalky and Co. and Kim, for one Australian dollar.
How neat is that? Two more books that I just remembered from childhood by Rudyard Kipling:
The jungle Book and
Just so Stories #1 is The Jungle Book, right? ... we miss out on some of the nuance in the original. I plan to read the original versions of Winnie the Pooh, Pinocchio, The Jungle Book, Mary Poppins etc.
At the moment I am lucky as my daughter is only 18 months old. Now that she is better balanced I have decided to start reading ... ... Seuss. Emil and the Detectives, yes, though that may have been later (as was Heidi). Kipling's Just So Stories and The Jungle Books too, though my father used to tell us his own bedtime stories more often than he read those.
I was fortunate enough to go to a Montessori kindergarten, ... ... interest in wolves that persists even today), Dracula, King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table, Dorian Gray, The Jungle Book, Kidnapped, The Red Badge of Courage, The Prince and the Pauper, Robinson Crusoe, David Copperfield, The Count of Monte Cristo, The Mutiny on B ... ... renewal offers get progressively better (and cheaper); just succumbed for the 2007 membership year, adding the two-volume The Jungle Book and Just So Stories, by Kipling, and Machiavelli's masterpiece, The Prince. Of course, the freebies only sweeten the pot: The eight-volume Oxford ... aluvalibri-thanks so much for the fast response. i will look for the other Morante books, but please tell me about rosetta loy. I never heard of her. The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
(Metaphorically, of course.)
Tarzan of the Apes
Gorillas in the Mist
The Jungle Book
Incidents of Travel in Yucatan ... Austen
Frankenstein by Mary Shelly
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
Main Street by Sinclair Lewis
The Jungle Books by Rudyard Kipling
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
The Man of Property by John Galsworthy
Daisy Miller / The Turn of the Screw by Hen ... ... Steps & Greenmantle * ?
1999: Thomas Hardy – The Mayor of Casterbridge #
2002: Rudyard Kipling – The Jungle Books ?
That now brings the total number of worldwide WBR titles (that I'm aware of) to 98 - your listed 96 titles (in post #10 above) plus the Kipling ... ... seen it, but only in U.K. eBay listings. Also note that this RD edition contains the text of both the original The Jungle Book plus the subsequent The Second Jungle Book - hence the plural title. The reason RD might well have chosen not to release that title as part of the U.S. WB ... ... are still a number of books missing from this list.
However, the only other book that I still consider, but question is The Jungle Book. I have searched high and low for information on this particular book and have uncovered many hits for the Readers Digest 'Best Loved Books For Young Reader ... ... books for just those three figuring I would be able to track them down eventually... well, I haven't yet.
In regard to The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling, I am aware of this book but can only find information on it as being part of the Readers Digest 'Best Loved Books For Young Readers' ... I've always had a soft spot for the animated Jungle Book. ... S. Lewis The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe etc.
Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows
Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book
Hugh Lofting's The Voyage of Dr. Dolittle etc.
Thomas Malory's Le Mort d'Arthur
Lloyd Alexander's The Prydain Chronicles
Mary Stewar ... Not mentioned yet Susan Coolidge's What Katy Did and What Katy Did Next. Also, Rudyard Kipling's Jungle Book. And what about Noel Streatfield, for example, Party Frock and many of her others.
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