![]() ![]() Jerry Pinkney is one of America's most admired children's book illustrators. Among Kipling's best-known works are The Jungle Book, Just So Stories, and the poems "Mandalay" and "Gunga Din." Kipling was the first English-language writer to receive the Nobel Prize for literature (1907) and was among the youngest to have received the award. Rudyard Kipling was born in Bombay (now known as Mumbai), India, but returned with his parents to England at the age of five. A captivating work." "Publishers Weekly, " 6/2/97 About the Author: "Pinkney applies his considerable talents to the smooth retelling and lush illustration of one of Kipling's best-loved animal tales. This great story has been given the loving treatment it deserves. The splash of a yellow squash blossom Teddy's crimson shirt a scarlet hibiscus, or the burnished head of Darzee, the tailor bird, add grace notes to the shimmering pages. ![]() The subdued natural colors of the animals contrast with the garden's riot. ![]() Pinkney's humans are not idealized, and Rikki, while eminently pettable, is not anthropomorphized. The large pictures (often spreading across much of a facing page) can barely contain the mongoose's energy as his lithe body twists and turns, evading and attacking the cobras and the brown snake, curling in young Teddy's arms, and basking in the family's adulation. In this glorious picture book, Pinkney's accessible retelling and dramatic watercolors plunge readers into the lush garden Rikki rules and the life of the family he comes to guard. ![]()
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