"Shere Khan, the Big One, has shifted his hunting grounds. He will hunt among these hills for the next moon, so he has told me." Shere Khan was the tiger w

"Shere Khan, the Big One, has shifted his hunting grounds. He will hunt among these hills for the next moon, so he has told me." Shere Khan was the tiger who lived near the Waingunga River, twenty miles away. "He has no right!" Father Wolf began angrily--"By the Law of the Jungle he has no right to change his quarters without due warning. He will frighten every head of game within ten miles, and I--I have to kill for two, these days." [0] Why anyone would deprive someone the thrill of reading short stories like "How the Camel Got His Hump" [1] or "Jungle Book" is beyond me. Kipling fell out of favour because of the "Imperialist" overtones of his writing, a product of the British Empire times he lived in. I can think of another reason: Kipling also wrote what he saw, not what was ideal. Take the above quote from, "The Jungle Book". You have descriptions of how real natural systems work. Surely we don't want to frighten young children with such descriptions of predators and predated? Yet the same ideas and themes are reported in the media on a sport, business and politics regular basis. [0] http://www.gutenberg.org/catalog/world/readfile?fk_files=217293&pageno=3 http://www.gutenberg.org/catalog/world/readfile?fk_files=217... [1] http://www.online-literature.com/kipling/167/ http://www.online-literature.com/kipling/167/