# The Jungle Book

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- Book: [The Jungle Book](https://www.bookquiver.com/rudyard-kipling/the-jungle-book) ([The Jungle Book.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/rudyard-kipling/the-jungle-book.md))
- Authors: [Rudyard Kipling](https://www.bookquiver.com/rudyard-kipling)
- Publisher: childrens_classics
- ISBN: 978-18-5715-932-5
- Pages: 272
- Published: 1994-10-06
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Hardcover

## Description

Among the best loved of all classics for children are the tales of Mowgli, the boy who learned the law of the jungle as he grew up among a pack of wolves in India's Seeonee Hills. First published in 1894, the book imagines a child living and flourishing in a community of animals - an idea that perhaps had its origin in Kipling's unhappy childhood. 'His stories are not animal stories in the realistic sense; they are wonderful, beautiful fairy tales, ' wrote Ernest Thompson Seton, the great Canadian naturalist. Kurt Wiese's illustrations, commissoned by the American firm of Doubleday in 1932, have never appeared in Britain before. An artist with a particular interest in animals and an amazing visual memory, he remembered all he had observed on his travels in the Far East during the early 1900s, first as a salesman in China and then as a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese.