"And that is how Mowgli was entered into the Seeone Wolf-Pack for the price of a bull and on Baloo's good word."
Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book
How much I love "The Jungle Book"!
(... and I had been very surprised to learn that the book is telling quite serious tales, like fables, and in that differs a lot from the
Disney animated movie.)
(... and I had been very surprised to learn that the book is telling quite serious tales, like fables, and in that differs a lot from the
Disney animated movie.)
Here are some bookmarks I made for kids of all ages, in remembrance of Baloo the good Bear from the "Jungle Book".
"The man's cub - the man's cub?" he said. "I speak for the man's cub. There is no harm in a man's cub. I have no gift of words, but I speak the truth. Let him run with the Pack, and be entered with the others. I myself will teach him."
