![]() ![]() ![]() Razor-sharp writing with rather dull artistic accompaniment. However, the artist's style and chosen medium produce a somewhat flat, torpid appearance. In Davis's ( The Jolly Mon Trouble Dolls ) acrylic paintings, dominated by the greens of the garden and the browns of the earth, readers can clearly see the nut-colored mongoose, his adoptive family in their period dress and the slithering snakes. The creatures of the Indian garden come truly alive in Kipling's expert prose-the birds sing out messages of joy and warning the cobra rears and spreads his sinister hood the brave mongoose leaps and springs, victorious at last. ![]() Rikki's fight to defend his family from the menacing cobras Nag and Nagaina remains as suspenseful and emotive as ever. With this newly illustrated edition of the treasured classic-written in the 1890s as part of the. Although a few Victorianisms in the text will need to be explained to young readers, the story has held up remarkably well over a century's time. Harcourt Children's Books, 18 (44pp) ISBN 978-0-15-267015-3. ![]() With this newly illustrated edition of the treasured classic-written in the 1890s as part of the Jungle Books -readers can once again be captivated by the tale of a mongoose who is taken in by a family of British colonials living in India. An apt analogy is Rudyard Kipling's Rikki-Tikki-Tavi story in The Jungle Book.2 Rikki-Tikki-Tavi, a pet mongoose, protects a British family living in. ![]()
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