The Jungle Book

Meet the human boy Mowgli, the sleek panther Bagheera, the `sleepy brown bear` Baloo, and the conniving tiger Shere Khan in one of the world`s best-loved books. A collection of short stories and poems centred on the charming cast, The Jungle Book not only follows Mowgli`s journey to learn the Law of the Jungle from his animal companions but also introduces some of its other wonderful inhabitants in stories such as `Rikki-Tikki-Tavi` and `The White Seal`. This collector`s edition includes the original illustrations of Rudyard`s father J. Lockwood Kipling as well as an afterword by writer and editor David Stuart Davies. Designed to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector`s Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector`s Library are books to love and treasure.