Ricky-Tikki-Tavi

Joseph Redyard Kipling (1865-1936) - English writer, poet, first Englishman who received the Nobel Prize in literature (1907) "for observation, vivid fantasy, maturity of ideas and an outstanding talent of the narrator." Kipling was born in India, and at the age of 5, his parents sent him to study in England. For the boy, these were difficult years - the mistress of the private boarding house, where he lived, did not treat him well. But in the same years, he fell in love with reading. A little later, while studying at a private Devonian school, Redjard will begin to write. Father was so impressed by his stories that he helped his son find the work of a journalist in the editorial office of the "Civil and Military newspaper". In 1882, Kipling returns to India. He works as a journalist, writes short stories and poems, travels a lot.
Redjard Kipling wrote many wonderful fairy tales, their main characters - people and animals - coexist as absolutely equal residents of one planet. In these playful fairy tales, young readers will find answers to hundreds of different "how" and "why" - as the first letter was written, the report of the camel of the hump, where the whale has such a narrow sip, where the rhino has a skin in folds. Kipling has fairy tales that you need to think about. The protagonist of the fairy tale "Moth who stomped his foot"-the wisest ruler of Suleiman-Ben-Daud, who understood the language of animals and birds, nevertheless succumbed to boasting and vanity. But the fairy tale teaches that any disadvantages, if you really want this, can be corrected by love, a cordial attitude towards each other. And the writer did not forget about adventures! In one of the stories of the "Book of the Jungle", the victory of the mongoose ricks-tivi-Tavi over huge cobras and how he saved the people from whom he lived, from fierce death.
In this book, the child will get acquainted with the fairy tales "Ricki-Tikki-Tavi", "As the folds appeared on the skin of the rhino", "Moth that stomped his foot."
For primary school age. The text of the works is given without abbreviations