The Jungle Books

The original stories of The Jungle Book surpass all rollicking Disneyfied expectations. On one level, the Mancub's education is pure entertainment; on another, the jungle is symbolic of Kipling's philosophy of life, a moral playground in which the young learn to swing on the vines of life

The Times

One of the greatest writers that Britain has ever produced

Griff Rhys Jones

The incantatory text of Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Books still rewards reading aloud

Sunday Times

[Its] lasting power to enchant lies not in a contrived simplicity of language - it makes no concession to the age or verbal dexterity of the reader - but rather to its uncanny understanding of the adult within every child

Beryl Bainbridge

'The child who has never run with Mowgli's wolf pack . . . has missed something that he will not get from any other writer

Rosemary Sutcliff

The Just So Stories and The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling have always held a fascination for me, and doubtless sparked off my love of India

Prince of Wales

Rudyard Kipling is a writer for our times, and for all time

Roger Moore

Around a century ago, Rudyard Kipling laid the foundations of modern children's literature with works such as The Jungle Book, Just So Stories and Puck of Pook's Hill. Far from the fusty Victorian conventions of the time, they were wild, magnificent stories that felt as though they'd always existed, stories people might have told each other in the caves

Daily Telegraph