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| Harvey Cheyne Jr. is pulled into a fishing dory (Wikimedia) |
Note: Rudyard Kipling is famous for stories in exotic settings--India, for example. But this one happens mainly off the coast of Canada and New England!
Get Ready: Within reason, do you think children should be given anything they ask for, and allowed to do anything they want to? Why or why not?
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| A four-man Indian rickshaw (Wikimedia) |
Note: This terrifying story comes from the same benign pen that gave us Mowgli and the "Just So stories." Be warned!
Get Ready: Isi t possible for a person's guilty imagination to cause him or her to see things, to the point of a mental breakdown?
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| "This is the Elephant's Child having his nose pulled by the Crocodile..." (Gutenberg) |
Note: Rudyard Kipling wrote a huge number of short stories, many of them for children. This one is from a collection that is one of his most famous.
Get Ready: Have you ever wondered why elephants' trunks are long? Here's the answer! 😉
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| Rikki faces Nag (Gutenberg) |
Note: This story was included in Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book; it is another example of the author's keen observations of interactions between the animals of India.
Get Ready: Have you ever had an unusual pet? Or do you know anyone who has? What was it like?
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| Kim and the Lama (Wikipedia) |
Note: Kim is a cracking good adventure story, as well as an accurate description of the situation in India around the turn of the 20th century and the "Great Game" between Great Britain and Russia for dominance of Afghanistan and neighboring territories.
Get Ready: Are you familiar with the political situation in Afghanistan today? It has been a hotspot since (at least) the 19th century.
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| Mowgli made leader of the Bandar-log (Monkeys) (Wikipedia) |
Note: Rudyard Kipling's Jungle Book stories explore the boundaries between law and freedom, nature and civilization. And they're darned good reading!
Get Ready: Who do you think has an easier life: humans in a town or city, or animals in the wild? Why do you think so?
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