Knihy džunglí – Kipling Rudyard Joseph (2023)

The Jungle Books – magical stories of the human cub Mowgli raised by wolves – can transport us across oceans and continents, bringing the jungle somewhere in the middle of India to life before our eyes. Mowgli learned to understand the jungle like his wolf brothers and sisters: the rustle of grass, the breeze of the night air, the hoot of an owl, the scratching of a bat's claws as it briefly settled on a tree, and every splash of a fish in the pool he knows as intimately as we know the signal of a mobile phone. ***** If Mowgli wants to survive, he must defeat Shere Khan, a tiger a hundred times stronger than a human – but Mowgli has the advantage of human thinking. However, so did the people who built the ancient city, which they later abandoned in haste, allowing the jungle to reclaim it. It is in the half-ruined city overgrown with wilderness that some of the most beautiful parts of the book take place. No, the jungle really cannot be controlled from offices behind the glass facades of a big city... ***** The Jungle Books through the eyes of a ten-year-old reader D. Č. The most thrilling chapter is Rikki-tikki-tavi, featuring a smaller animal, a mongoose, that fights a cobra much larger than itself. In danger, the mongoose's eyes turn a golden red. It manages to win thanks to its great speed and agility. If you are interested in animals and have them...