Books with title Rikki-Tikki-Tavi

“Rikki Tikki Tavi” is a short story by Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936). It was first published in 1894. It tells the story of a valiant and tenacious young mongoose, named Rikki-Tikki-Tavi, which would have become the character of a Disney movie.This ebook contains the original illustrations by John Lockwood Kipling (1837-1911), the father of Rudyard. It also contains a biographical profile of Kipling written by Charles Eliot Norton (1827-1908) in 1891.

In this beautiful edition, Lambert Davis’s lush, realistic paintings bring new life to Nobel Prize-winner Rudyard Kipling’s beloved story of courage, honor, and friendship between a mongoose and a boy. “Kipling’s language and sense of story are superior as they develop the theme of loyalty, and the illustrations, lush with greenery, impart a sense of place and time while remaining focused on the story.”--American Bookseller

"This is the story of the great war that Rikki-tikki-tavi fought single-handed, through the bath-rooms of the big bungalow in Segowlee cantonment. Darzee, the tailor-bird, helped him, and Chuchundra, the musk-rat, who never comes out into the middle of the floor, but always creeps round by the wall, gave him advice; but Rikki-tikki did the real fighting."With original illustrations by W.H. Drake.

This edition includes 10 illustrations. Rudyard Kipling, living and working primarily during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, hails from a time when the ambitions of the United Kingdom spread east into India. Born in Bombay, his family moved to England when he was just five years old, but many of his works, including the action-filled short story “Rikki-Tikki-Tavi,” are nonetheless set in his birthplace. As part of the collection of short stories known to readers as The Jungle Book, “Rikki-Tikki-Tavi,” the tale of a courageous and loyal mongoose protecting his family from king cobras, has been an especial favorite for over a century.

The Classic Story from the Jungle Book. 'Rikki-Tikki-Tavi' by Rudyard Kipling. "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi" is a short story in The Jungle Book (1894) by Rudyard Kipling about the adventures of a valiant young mongoose. The story is notable for its frightening and serious tone. The story follows the experiences of a young mongoose named Rikki-Tikki-Tavi (for his chattering vocalizations) after he was adopted into a British family residing in a bungalow in India, as a pet and as protection against venomous snakes. After becoming acquainted with some of the other creatures inhabiting the garden, Rikki is warned of two cobras Nag and Nagaina, who are angered by the family's presence on the territory which they had previously dominated. Nag enters the house's bathroom before dawn but is attacked by Rikki. The struggle that ensues awakens the human family and the father kills Nag with both barrels of a shotgun. Nagaina, grieving, attempts revenge against Rikki's human family, cornering them as they take breakfast on an outdoor veranda. While Nagaina has been distracted by the wife of a bird named Darzee, Rikki has destroyed the cobra's unhatched brood of eggs except for one. He now carries it to where Nagaina is threatening to bite the child Teddy while his parents watch helplessly. Nagaina, enraged, recovers her egg, but, pursued by Rikki-Tikki to the cobra's underground nest where an unseen final battle takes place. Rikki emerges triumphant from the hole declaring Nagaina dead. His subsequent role is to protect the family by keeping the garden free from any future intrusion by snakes.

It’s war between Rikki-tikki-tavi, the mongoose with eyes of flame, and the king cobras who rule the garden of an English family in India. Rikki is fast and clever in his battle with Nag. But will he save the boy, Teddy, before Nagaina can strike?Introduced by AC Capehart and with an extensive afterword and detailed annotations by Carolyn Fay, you’ll find this classic tale from Kipling’s The Jungle Book riveting.You’ll also want a mongoose for a pet.

This new edition of Rikki Tikki Tavi features new original illustrations from Emma Lysy.From Rudyard Kipling's classic The Jungle Book, Rikki Tikki Tavi is the story of a mongoose and two cobras. Taken in after being washed into the garden of a British family in India, he protects the house from the devious cobras Nag and Nagaina with help from his friends and mongoose cunning.

"Rikki-Tikki-Tavi" is a short story in The Jungle Book (1894) by Rudyard Kipling about the adventures of a valiant young mongoose.The story is notable for its frightening and serious tone. It has often been anthologized, and has been published more than once as a short book in its own right. The story was adapted as an animated short in 1965 and as a live-action feature film in the Soviet Union in 1975. The same year, animator Chuck Jones adapted the story for an animated TV special in the United States.The story follows the experiences of a young mongoose named Rikki-Tikki-Tavi (for his chattering vocalizations) after he was adopted into a British family residing in a bungalow in India, as a pet and as protection against venomous snakes. After becoming acquainted with some of the other creatures inhabiting the garden, Rikki is warned of two cobras Nag and Nagaina, who are angered by the family's presence on the territory which they had previously dominated. Nag enters the house's bathroom before dawn but is attacked by Rikki. The struggle that ensues awakens the human family and the father kills Nag with both barrels of a shotgun.Nagaina, grieving, attempts revenge against Rikki's human family, cornering them as they take breakfast on an outdoor veranda. While Nagaina has been distracted by the wife of a bird named Darzee, Rikki has destroyed the cobra's unhatched brood of eggs except for one. He now carries it to where Nagaina is threatening to bite the child Teddy while his parents watch helplessly. Nagaina, enraged, recovers her egg, but, pursued by Rikki-Tikki to the cobra's underground nest where an unseen final battle takes place. Rikki emerges triumphant from the hole declaring Nagaina dead. His subsequent role is to protect the family by keeping the garden free from any future intrusion by snakes.