New Releases by Rudyard Kipling

From Mowgli''s relentless battle against the man-eating, lame-footed tiger Shere Khan to Rikki-Tikki-Tavi''s great war against the sinister cobras Nag and Nagaina, Rudyard Kipling''s classic The Jungle Book has been filling our lives with excitement for more than a century now. No personal library is complete without this timeless novel, and this edition enhanced for use in the classroom is a must have for any teacher about to embark on this literary adventure. Inspired by eight years of successful use in his own classroom, author and teacher David Scott Fields II - of the Chronicles of the Imagination series - has compiled this latest release to include journals, vocabulary, quizzes, and writing projects all aimed at teaching the elements of fiction using a literary masterpiece. This edition includes all seven short stories originally released in the first Jungle Book published in 1883-1884, including Mowgli''s Brothers, Kaa''s Hunting, "Tiger! Tiger!", The White Seal, "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi", Toomai of the Elephants, and Her Majesty'' Servants. Great for grades 6 through 8!

From Longman''s Cultural Edition series, Rudyard Kipling''s Kim, edited by Paula M. Krebs and Tricia Lootens, sets Kipling''s most important novel in both its imperial and its literary contexts. Ever since its publication in 1900, Kipling''s story of British India has catalyzed fantasies and debates over colonialism and imperialism. Through a series of selections from Kipling''s poetry, travel writing, autobiography--and, crucially, his work as a young journalist--this edition offers students and teachers new ways of reading the tale of how the young streetwise Kim, "Little Friend of All the World," becomes both a Buddhist holy man''s disciple and a British spy.

A passage from the book... IN the sea, once upon a time, O my Best Beloved, there was a Whale, and he ate fishes. He ate the starfish and the garfish, and the crab and the dab, and the plaice and the dace, and the skate and his mate, and the mackereel and the pickereel, and the really truly twirly-whirly eel. All the fishes he could find in all the sea he ate with his mouth-so! Till at last there was only one small fish left in all the sea, and he was a small ''Stute Fish, and he swam a little behind the Whale''s right ear, so as to be out of harm''s way. Then the Whale stood up on his tail and said, ''I''m hungry.'' And the small ''Stute Fish said in a small ''stute voice, ''Noble and generous Cetacean, have you ever tasted Man?'' ''No,'' said the Whale. ''What is it like?'' ''Nice,'' said the small ''Stute Fish. ''Nice but nubbly.'' ''Then fetch me some,'' said the Whale, and he made the sea froth up with his tail.

A passage from the book... n summer all right-minded boys built huts in the furze-hill behind the College-little lairs whittled out of the heart of the prickly bushes, full of stumps, odd root-ends, and spikes, but, since they were strictly forbidden, palaces of delight. And for the fifth summer in succession, Stalky, McTurk, and Beetle (this was before they reached the dignity of a study) had built like beavers a place of retreat and meditation, where they smoked. Now, there was nothing in their characters as known to Mr. Prout, their house-master, at all commanding respect; nor did Foxy, the subtle red-haired school Sergeant, trust them. His business was to wear tennis-shoes, carry binoculars, and swoop hawklike upon evil boys. Had he taken the field alone, that hut would have been raided, for Foxy knew the manners of his quarry; but Providence moved Mr. Prout, whose school-name, derived from the size of his feet, was Hoofer, to investigate on his own account; and it was the cautious Stalky who found the track of his pugs on the very floor of their lair one peaceful afternoon when Stalky would fain have forgotten Prout and his works in a volume of Surtees and a new briar-wood pipe. Crusoe, at sight of the footprint, did not act more swiftly than Stalky. He removed the pipes, swept up all loose match-ends, and departed to warn Beetle and McTurk.

This is the first scholarly edition to bring together the best short stories and poems of Rudyard Kipling. Covering the full range of Kipling''s career from the 1880s to the 1930s it includes selections from Plain Tales from the Hills, Traffics and Discoveries, Just So Stories, Barrack-RoomBallads and Other Verses, and many more. A hugely inventive writer, Kipling displayed his comic mastery as well as bleak insights into human behaviour in his work, and stories such as ''Mary Postgate'', ''The Man who would be King'', and ''Mrs Bathurst'' established his reputation as an artist who stillhas the power to astonish his readers. In his introduction and notes Daniel Karlin addresses the social and political engagement of Kipling''s art, and the controversies over his critical and popular reputation. Two appendices consider Kipling''s attitude to British rule in India and to the army, and original illustrations include a mapof the Punjab from ''The Man who would be King''.

For the modern reader of Kipling''s Barrack-Room Ballads - among the most enduringly popular poems ever published in England - some explanation of their contemporary expressions and allusions and their military context is necessary if he is to appreciate them in their full glory. John Whitehead, critic and biographer who himself served with the Indian Army in Burma, has provided this in full measure in his entertaining and scholarly Introduction and comprehensive textual Notes. This Centenary Edition of the ballads is unlikely ever to be superseded.