The Jungle Book: Quick Facts

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Illustration from The Jungle Book

A Bengal tiger (Panthera tigris tigris) walks across a dirt safari track in tall grass, mouth open as it calls, at Kanha Tiger Reserve in Madhya Pradesh, India.

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The Peter Pan statue in Kensington Gardens. The statue shows the boy who would never grow up, blowing his horn on a tree stump with a fairy, London. fairy tale

Famous Stories, Beloved Characters

A Mad Tea Party. Alice meets the March Hare and Mad Hatter in Lewis Carroll's "Adventures of Alice in Wonderland" (1865) by English illustrator and satirical artist Sir John Tenniel.

Getting Into Character

Sherlock Holmes explaining to Dr. Watson what he has deduced from the pipe left behind by a visitor (see Notes); engraving from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of the Yellow Face by Arthur Conan Doyle, The Strand Magazine, London, 1893.

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