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The imaginary okapi
\"Beshte discovers an okapi--a shy animal that looks like a cross between a zebra and a giraffe. He hides whenever the rest of the Guard come by so they assume Beshte made up an imaginary friend. But now the okapi is being chased by a leopard! Can the Lion Guard protect him?\"--Amazon.com
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\The Jungle Books\: Rudyard Kipling's Lamarckian Fantasy
Scholars have long described Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Books as a Darwinian narrative. Overlooked, however, is the way in which the text explicitly discusses Lamarckian evolutionary ideas, especially the inheritance of acquired characteristics. This essay contextualizes Mowgli's narrative within a fierce latenineteenth-century debate about whether the Darwinian theory of natural selection or Lamarckian use inheritance was the main driver of evolutionary change. Kipling describes his protagonist's maturation to \"Master of the Jungle\" in thoroughly Lamarckian terms, as an evolutionary process propelled by experience, effort, and conscious adaptation. But some of the conceptual incoherence that troubled the Lamarckian evolutionary scheme when it was applied to human racial difference also troubles Kipling's account of Mowgli's genetic past and the evolutionary issue of his experiences.
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The jungle book
Adaptation of Rudyard Kipling's \"The Jungle Book,\" focusing on stories that feature Mowgli, Baloo the bear, and Bagheera the panther.
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Jungle friends
Easy-to-read text introduces a number of Mowgli's friends from the animated Disney version of The Jungle Book.
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Lost!
In an interview with a reporter, eleven-year-old Carter recounts his tale of survival with twelve-year-old Anna in the perilous jungles of Costa Rica. Includes a list of suvival kit items.
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The Constraints of Literary Paradigms
Ida (2011), written by Jørn Hurum and Torstein Helleve and illustrated by Esther van Hulsen, is a non-fiction picturebook for children with an ambitious objective. It presents a fossil, the findings from the study of this fossil, and the dispute over the validity of the results. The composition of the text is threefold: the book opens with an illustrative story about the life and death of the primate that ends up becoming the fossil in question, subsequently introduces a lexicographical section ensuring the credibility of the scientific results of the primate's research group, and finally provides instructions for appropriate activities that offer the child reader ownership of the presented knowledge.
This article discusses the ambiguity within the book. The discussion has a primary focus on the constraints within the illustrative story that is jointly ruled by scientific aims and the traditions of children's literature. The purpose of the protagonist is to die, which is rather rare in a children's book. Nonetheless, the protagonist's life and death takes place in the jungle environment which, according to Marilyn Strasser Olson \"apparently reduces the tension\" (Olson
2013
: 55). The intertextual use of Christian mythology adds a solid cultural background to the story and the artwork calls to mind Henri Rousseau's jungle cosmology. It will nonetheless be argued that the literary traditions embedded in the book ultimately blur the validity of the scientific message.
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The Zabajaba Jungle
Leonard penetrates the mysterious Zabajaba Jungle where odd adventures await him, from carnivorous flowers to a petrified monster.
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Private Yokoi's War and Life on Guam, 1944-1972
When discovered by local hunters on Guam, Yokoi was widely reported as a ‘no surrender man’ who survived, living up to the old Japanese military code of honour. This book sheds light on the reality of the war in the Pacific while addressing some key issues concerning the nature of Japanese culture in modern times.; Readership: General/trade
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