Into The Jungle Katherine Rundell Pdf

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'Rundell's interpretation is glorious.' Kiran Milwood Hargrave

Into the Jungle is a modern classic in the making, as Katherine Rundell creates charming and compelling origin stories for all Kipling's best-known characters, from Baloo and Shere Khan to Kaa and Bagheera. As Mowgli travels through the Indian jungle, this brilliantly visual tale, which weaves each short story together into a wider whole, will make readers both laugh and cry.

A gorgeously produced gift hardback with foiled cover, a ribbon marker and colour illustrations throughout by creative genius Kristjana S Williams, this is truly a book for all the family to treasure and share.

Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book, first published by Macmillan in 1894, is one of the most enduring books of children's literature, delighting generations of children. Katherine Rundell has taken this as the basis of her new and enchanting tale, sharing the early years of favourite characters and informing the creatures they become in Kipling's classic, with stories about family and friendship, loyalty and jungle law, and a final battle which will decide the future of the forest.

Following a plane crash into the depths of the Amazon jungle, four children find themselves suddenly having to fend for one another in the midst of one of the most wild and untamed places on the planet. With danger potentially lurking behind every tree, the chances of them all getting back home alive seem very slim.

We all know some young explorers; the ones who love adventure, the ones who watch Bear Grylls for the survival tips, the ones who pore over atlases and illustrated books of exotic places. These are the ones who will adore this new book from Katherine Rundell with its adventure, courage, resilience and spirit.

Four children are in a plane crash and find themselves stranded alone in the depths of the Amazon rainforest. Fred, Constantia along with brother and sister, Lila and Max are not the stuff of which the usual jungle survivors are made but as the plot moves along each has a different strength to bring to their joint survival. Of course being so young their chances would be slim no matter how great their competence were it not for the fact that they stumble upon evidence of another earlier person who had lived in the spot in which they find themselves.

Fred, who has always devoured the accounts of the great explorers, is wildly excited about the meagre finds which indicate an explorer has pass this way before and the children collectively are reassured when they find a map. So begins their adventure proper with the building of a raft, scrounging for food and water and setting off down the Amazon following the directions.

To their immense surprise they find themselves in a lost city of stone where indeed an old irascible explorer is in residence. His reluctance to accept them into his space or help them mellows over the ensuing days and eventually when things go terribly wrong he comes to their rescue with a self-sacrifice that is immeasurable.

The story of The Explorer is pretty simple. Four children survive a plane crash in the opening chapter and must navigate the perils of the Amazon rainforest until they can get home. To do this they must find food and shelter. What follows is a fantastic tale of challenge and adventure as the children learn who they really are in the face of danger. The story may be simple but the writing is both very real and gritty thus allowing the reader to experience the sights, sounds and even the tastes of the Amazon.

I loved the The Explorer for many reasons. Even though it was bursting full of imagination and adventure, it was based on people and places in the real world. This always makes a story more interactive and instantly believable.

In the foreword, Rundell explains that nearly everything that happens in this novel happened to her to some extent during her own adventures in the Amazon. This video describes her reasons for writing this unique tale of adventure and bravery:

Yes this is an ideal bedtime or classroom read to spark an interest in the natural world and its amazing animals and secret places. There are no boring parts to this story as Rundell brings us on an adventure deep into the Amazonian jungle.

From his seat in the tiny aeroplane, Fred watches as the mysteries of the Amazon jungle pass by below him. He has always dreamed of becoming an explorer, of making history and of reading his name amongst the lists of great discoveries. If only he could land and look about him.

As the plane crashes into the canopy, Fred is suddenly left without a choice. He and the three other children may be alive, but the jungle is a vast, untamed place. With no hope of rescue, the chance of getting home feels impossibly small.

Except, it seems, someone has been there before them ...

When four children survive a plane crash over the Amazon jungle, they have to put aside their differences and band together to find shelter and food. There is Fred, who dreams of being an explorer one day, Brazilians Lila and her little brother Max, 5, and the moody Constantia, an orphan who only answers to Con. After Fred finds a map, they build a makeshift raft and set off down the river looking for help - and stumble into the camp of a mysterious hermit.

Rundell, who wrote the wonderful Rooftoppers, set in Paris, vividly describes the beauty and danger of the Amazon in this exciting adventure story about friendship, survival and the importance of conservation. Her characters are beautifully drawn and each has hidden talents that come to the fore as they learn survival skills. Set around the 1930s, there are elements of Gary Paulsen's Hatchet, Eva Ibbotson's Journey to the River Sea, and Willard Price's adventure stories in this gorgeous modern classic for age 9 plus.

The Explorer opens with a group of four children getting on a place bound for England. Somewhere along their journey something goes wrong and the plane crash-lands in the Amazon rainforest. Though it is never explicitly stated, the pilot is dead so the four kids are left to fend for themselves. Taking the lead early on is Fred, a British boy who is tall for his age and has a keen interest in exploration. He is joined by Con who is both terrified and wonderfully argumentative and contrary. Finally there is Lila and her younger brother Max. Lila has a good understanding of animals whilst Max gets into trouble and cries a lot. They are a great bunch of characters who quickly, out of sheer necessity, become firm friends.

The novel follows their attempts to stay safe and, eventually, find a way home. They manage to find shelter and forage for edible (ish) things to keep them going. However, they are soon keen to explore the jungle and come across a map leading to a mysterious destination. Following the map they stumble on more than a few secrets that the lush forest has been hiding for some years. Will they be able to uncover something that will allow them to return home or will they be destined to survive off grubs and bananas for the rest of their days?

Thanks for the review. I was at the library with my 12 year old daughter and looking for a book for her to read during the school holidays. Your review sealed the deal, she is already two chapters in before we got home.