{"product_id":"9781857159325","title":"The Jungle Book","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor:  Kipling, Rudyard \u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eClassic fiction (Children's \/ Teenage)\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 6 October 1994 by Everyman (Everyman's Library Children's Classics) in the United Kingdom as part of 'the Everyman's Library CHILDREN'S CLASSICS' series.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHardback | 272 pages\u003cbr\u003e212 x 163 x 21 | 484g\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAmong the best loved of all classics for children are the tales of Mowgli, the boy who learned the law of the jungle as he grew up among a pack of wolves in India's Seeonee Hills. First published in 1894, the book imagines a child living and flourishing in a community of animals - an idea that perhaps had its origin in Kipling's unhappy childhood. 'His stories are not animal stories in the realistic sense; they are wonderful, beautiful fairy tales, ' wrote Ernest Thompson Seton, the great Canadian naturalist. Kurt Wiese's illustrations, commissoned by the American firm of Doubleday in 1932, have never appeared in Britain before. An artist with a particular interest in animals and an amazing visual memory, he remembered all he had observed on his travels in the Far East during the early 1900s, first as a salesman in China and then as a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Far From The Madding Crowd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46124762169603,"sku":"9781857159325","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0404\/3207\/4914\/files\/9781857159325.jpg?v=1731339654","url":"https:\/\/www.maddingcrowdlinlithgow.com\/products\/9781857159325","provider":"Far From The Madding Crowd","version":"1.0","type":"link"}