A selection of extracts from Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book, illustrated in 2023. A colour palette reduced to light and shade to recreate a tropical forest atmosphere.
“At other times Mowgli would pick the long thorns out of the pads of his friends, for wolves suffer terribly from horns and burrs in their coats.”
« Baloo taught him how to tell a rotten branch from a sound one, how to speak politely to wild bees.»
« Kaa was not a poisonous snake, in fact he rather despised poison snakes as cowards, but his strength lay in his hug.»
” Mowgli laid his head down on Bagheera’s back and slept so deeply, that he never woke up when he was put down in the home-cave.”
