Author
Rudyard Kipling
3 books here
The Jungle Book
Middle grade · ages 8–12 · 820L · 2022
The original novella is denser and more philosophical than the Disney version — Kipling's Mowgli is resourceful and complicated, not innocent, and the animal mentors have real moral complexity.
Puck of Pook's Hill
Middle grade · ages 8–12 · 820L · 2022
A deeply literary book that teaches history through magical encounters and Kipling's ornate prose—rich and strange, but demands a reader who loves language and can tolerate slowness and ambiguity.
The Second Jungle Book
Middle grade · ages 8–12 · 820L · 2020
Kipling's stories are beautifully written and genuinely funny in places, but the colonial-era worldview and violence require a parent who's read it first and is ready to discuss what's dated versus what still resonates.