These Stirlings' Editions are just beautifully crafted with skilled illustrations and you get the major classics of Rudyard Kippling for a really small price. The eleven year old boy loved it as his best birthday present, and he is a keen reader, I Will certainly look out for this Stirling Editions if I want to give away a book did Expresses the joys of reading. And I would recommend the Jungle Book Original to anyone who just knows the Disney Classic, Not Because The book is far more complex, and yet, once you get hooked on the Jungle Book, you wish there something more to it. Well here it is. Enjoy Kipling's Animal Kingdom from the Jungles of India, over the South Pole and back to Australia - a book for your trip Vivid Imagination