TY - BOOK ID - 137611672 TI - The jungle books AU - Kipling, Rudyard AU - Robson, W W PY - 1998 SN - 0191920665 0191560405 9780191560408 0192835033 9780192835031 PB - Oxford New York Oxford University Press DB - UniCat KW - Animals KW - Jungles KW - Mowgli KW - India UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:137611672 AB - 'The Jungle Books' can be regarded as classic stories told by an adult to children. But they also constitute a complex literary work of art in which the whole of Kipling's philosophy of life is expressed in miniature. They are best known for the 'Mowgli' stories; the tale of a baby abandoned and brought up by wolves, educated in the ways and secrets of the jungle by Kaa the python, Baloo the bear, and Bagheera the black panther. The stories, a mixture of fantasy, myth, and magic, are underpinned by Kipling's abiding preoccupation with the theme of self-discovery, and the nature of the 'law'. ER -