A review by kberry513
The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling

5.0

I had thought that all the Jungle Book stories focused on Mowgli, or at least had Mowgli on the periphery, but that's probably just because of the Disney movie. Although unlike the other stories, which are separate and self-contained, the first few were about Mowgli. But then again, I have definitely read them all at some point in the past, so I guess I just forgot. The stories are a bit racist (both outright and faintly veiled - the monkeys seem to be a bit of a caricature or maybe I read too much into it) and also a little violent, especially the one about the seals getting killed. But overall, they are definitely something I would recommend to slightly older children. I think my favorite is Rikki-Tikki-Tavi.