![]() ![]() No children’s book has had a greater influence on the minds and attitudes of young English-speakers than “The Jungle Book” (1894) and its companion, “The Second Jungle Book” (1895), written by Rudyard Kipling while he was living in Brattleboro, Vermount. Milne’s readers, will always be an Eeyore children who read “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” understand her befuddlement at the curious ways of the world only more acutely as they grow older. There is a certain type of gloomy old man who, for A.A. The defining quality of great children’s literature is persistence: It stays with the reader with undiminished vitality into adulthood. ![]() Illustrations by Stu (from The Yak Magazine Archive Issue 25, 2010). Jamie James on the enduring quality of one of the most successful children’s stories of all time. ![]()
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