The Jungle Books - Rudyard Kipling

As a child, if anyone had asked me I would have associated The Jungle Book, with the Disney film of the same name. It was not until I actually read the book, that I realised just how different it was to the film. In fact, The Jungle Book is not just one story, but a collection of short stories and poems, all of which focus on the animal world. ---The Book--- My copy of The Jungle Book, is a hardback edition published by The Children's Golden Library and features a picture of Mowgli in the jungle. This is not a long book, and is in fact only 159 pages long, and therefore ideal for a shorter read, especially with the fact that each story can be read ...  Read the complete review

it is packed full of adventure - Advantages: youll never get bored reading it - Disadvantages: it was made in to a disney film

What a pity it is that children today have been led to believe that Jungle book is just a Disney film that went out of fashion a couple of years ago. How many of them know that it was originally a famous book. Kipling's books are always a treat to read. The Jungle Book story is nowhere near as full of incident and life as the children's cartoon film but the main characters are the same and it still has its moments. ...  Read the complete review

Well, don't expect anything like the Disney film!! Although The Jungle Book was quite lively and Kipling had created brilliant characterisations of the animals, the language he used to describe events in the jungle with Mowgli, Baloo and the rest of the characters that we have grown to love from the film, appear quite dull and lifeless. I was read The Jungle Book as a child and it probably wasn't as magical as it should have been. Reading it later as an adult, I can see that it lacks life and is quite mundane, mainly because of the flamboyant language. I'm afraid that Disney made it come more alive for me!! ...  Read the complete review

I think I may be the only person in the entire world who doesn't like the Jungle Book. Okay, so the kids versions of it are all well and good, but the book itself is a chore to read. The different chapters seem to be entirely unrelated. The book follows an illogical structure, and is very difficult to read. Not only is it drenched in references to Kipling's own time and society, but it is not easy to read in, for example, the way Dickens is, and quite frankly, I wasn't drawn into the story at all. Whilst the cartoon adaption is fun, easy going and follows a story, the book seems to do the complete opposite. Quite frankly, if I'd ...  Read the complete review