Stories from the Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling
dramatized by Laurie Klein
audiobook on cassettes
children's classical fiction
I listened to this in the car and the reader did a pretty good job of reading "Mowgli's Brothers", but in my flawed memory of reading the Jungle Books as a child, I didn't remember that the creatures spoke in antiquated English. I have forgotten that there were a bunch of "thees" and "thous" and "hasts" in there. For some reason it didn't grip me the way it should, so I didn't listen to the rest of the cassettes. I heard some of "Kaa's Hunting" but skipped "The White Seal" and "Rikki Tikki Tavi".
Now that I think of it, the reason I checked it out was to listen to "The White Seal" which recently came up in a conversation. I was talking to someone about the cartoon version of "The White Seal" from the 1970's. My friend hadn't seen that one, but I remember it being on television more than once, along with "Rikki Tikki Tavi".
Sometimes stuff isn't how you remember it. I guess I was more familiar with the Disney movie than with the words that Rudyard Kipling originally used. I do know that I read Rudyard Kipling when I was some age between 8 and 12, though. I don't remember having trouble with the "thees" and "thous". So much for my memory.
