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A review by neilcake
The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling
4.0
Superb selection of stories. I originally bought this in a fit of overenthusiasm when our first daughter was born. She's five now and I started reading it to her, but the language is a bit archaic and grown up for her. She pretended to enjoy it, but the clue was that she's just start jumping up and down on the bed when she was supposed to be listening.
Anyway, we got up to the end of "Tiger! Tiger" and moved on to something else. I'd been enjoying it though, so I decided to finish it on my own, and I've really enjoyed it. "Rikki Tiki Tavi" and "The White Seal" were real standouts and, to be fair, I'm glad we stopped reading together before that last one. I think she would have found it a bit disturbing. The stories are so beautifully written though, and it's really interesting as a document of colonial times in India. I think I'll go on and read the second Jungle Book on my own at some point as well.
Anyway, we got up to the end of "Tiger! Tiger" and moved on to something else. I'd been enjoying it though, so I decided to finish it on my own, and I've really enjoyed it. "Rikki Tiki Tavi" and "The White Seal" were real standouts and, to be fair, I'm glad we stopped reading together before that last one. I think she would have found it a bit disturbing. The stories are so beautifully written though, and it's really interesting as a document of colonial times in India. I think I'll go on and read the second Jungle Book on my own at some point as well.