Author: Originally by Rudyard Kipling
Easy reader classic adapted by: Diane Namm
Illustration: Jim Madsen
No of pages: 32
We read Rikki Tikki Tavi. I found this book in Justbooks. But it is a easy reader classics retold for young readers. So I missed the illustration by caldecott award winner Jerry pinkney and original writing by Rudyard Kipling. But Rishi enjoyed the book.
It was about a curious mongoose Rikki Tikki Tavi, and how he turns the house topsy turvy and finally accepted by the family. Though in the real classic cobra is supposed to be scary, in this easy reader there was just a race and the cobra is not at all scary to my little one. When I asked Rishi what did he like about the book he said, he liked that racing and the way they both (mongoose and teddy) peeped out of the hole. So overall it was fun to introduce Rikki Tikki Tavi to him, who is longing to have a pet. I am sure he will ask me to get a pet mongoose soon :)
These two links are interesting, one is the story another is a movie on the same:
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~mongoose/rtt.html
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