Into the Jungle
Katherine Rundell
Illustrated by Kristjana S Williams
Ages 7 to 10
15 November 2018Imprint: Macmillan Digital Audio
Synopsis
Into the Jungle is a modern classic in the making, as Katherine Rundell creates charming and compelling origin stories for all Kipling's best-known 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...
Details
15 November 2018222 minutes
9781529015096Imprint: Macmillan Digital Audio
Reviews
These beginnings resonate with echoes of Kipling’s original and Just So Stories. They are written with mischievous scatological jokes, lively action and characteristic precision and surprise, because, as Baloo says, language “matters more than anything else”. The stories savour the profusion of the rainforest, as do Williams’s spectacularly lavish collages of engravings of animals and plants.Sunday Times, children's book of the week
Witty, charming and steeped in the harsh truth of nature, this is an absolute must for all Jungle Book fans, young or old.Daily Mail
The magnificent Rundell, [...] takes on Rudyard Kipling with these inventive back stories for everyone from Shere Khan to Baloo.Independent
Rundell may have created a new classic collection of tales.Daily Post Wales, Liverpool Echo, Morley Observer and Advertiser, Birmingham Mail, Grimsby Telegraph, children’s Book of the week
