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Es ist wie ein Traum, wie ein abscheulicher Traum! stöhnt Mr. Pickwick am Ende seines Ausritts in Charles Dickens urkomischer Erzählung "Die Pickwickier". Nicht hoch zu Roß, sondern auf dem Boden der Tatsachen landen die gar nicht heldenhaften Protagonisten am Ende ihres Abenteuers...

Der Tiger Shir Khan entführt das Menschenjunge Mowgli - und ahnt nicht, dass er sich mit ihm einen Feind auf Leben und Tod gemacht hat... Das kleine Kind kann fliehen und wächst bei den Wölfen auf - dem freien Volk des Dschungels. Erzogen wird er von dem dicken Bären Balu, der ihm die Jagdrufe und Grußworte aller Tiere beibringt, sodass Mowgli im Dschungel niemanden fürchten muss. Mowglis anderer Freund ist der schwarze Panther Baghira, der im Urwald von jedem gefürchtet wird.

Rudyard Kiplings Klassiker gehört in jedes Kinderzimmer. Denn wer kennt nicht die Geschichte von Mowgli, dem Menschenjungen...

L'Enfant d'Eléphant est extrait d'Histoires comme ça, un recueil de nouvelles qui expliquent le pourquoi...

Jeder kennt die Geschichte des Jungen Mowgli, der von dem Tiger Shir Khan als Säugling verschleppt wird und im indischen Dschungel bei einer Wolfsfamilie aufwächst. Mit Hilfe seiner Freunde, Baloo, dem Bären, Bagheera, dem Panther, und der Schlange Kaa, lernt Mowgli die Gesetze des Dschungels kennen. Schließlich naht der Tag der Abrechnung mit Shir Khan...

Der Passagier eines kleinen Frachtdampfers erlebt 1925 ein Seebeben und das Auftauchen eines Meerungeheuers, der Journalist Keller jedoch ist der Meinung, dass ein uraltes kosmisches Monster die Erde heimsucht. Professor Angell wird von einer schwarz gekleideten Gestalt gestoßen und stirbt. Sein Neffe Francis Thurston soll den Nachlass ordnen und findet eine Kiste mit kryptischen Aufzeichnungen. Für den Journalisten Keller beginnt der Wahnsinn, als er der Urenkelin von Conrad Zuyland begegnet, dem Mann, der von dem rätselhaften Seebeben berichtete.

Young Harvey Cheyne is rich, spoiled, prejudiced, and totally lacking in the real experiences of life. When the fifteen-year-old is accidentally washed overboard a great ocean liner headed for Europe, he is picked up by a fisherman and brought aboard the fishing schooner We're Here. Harvey's stories of privilege and wealth mean nothing aboard this hard-working vessel, and the boy receives many lessons in self-reliance, values, and hard-bitten reality—"things every man must know, blind, drunk, or asleep."

An entertaining collection of fairytales for bedtime.

A selection of gentle lullabies and classic children's stories to listen to at bedtime.

Ein Pferderennen ist immer ein besonderes Spektakel, aber in Indien ist damit noch eine gute Portion Schwindel verbunden. "Shackles" ist ein ungewöhnliches Rennpferd und bricht alle Rekorde, kann diesem Siegeszug ein Ende gesetzt werden?

This short poem should be required listening between father and son. Here are profound bits of wisdom and common sense that can help any young boy strive to be more of a man. Reimagined here as something akin to cowboy poetry, the poem is performed by Glenn Hascall.

Detskij radiospektakl' "Maugli" - po motivam znamenityh rasskazov "Kniga dzhunglej" anglijskogo pisatelja Red'jarda Kiplinga. Malen'kij mal'chik popadaet v dzhungli, v volch'ju sem'ju. On prigljanulsja materi-volchice. Ona nazvala ego Maugli (ljagushonok) i zashhitila ot tigra-ljudoeda Sher-Hana, schitavshego ego svoej dobychej. Volki vskormili i vospitali chelovecheskogo detjonysha. Sem'ja zhivjot v stae, kotoraja upravljaetsja zakonom dzhunglej.

As the invention of the automobile enabled quicker travel and enhanced the lives of the early motorists, it also gave new impetus to a generation of story writers. Automobiles were unusual, unfamiliar beasts. They combined speed and danger with an uncanny ability to break down at unexpected moments, catapulting the unhappy traveller into new adventures, or thusting mystery strangers onto the inhabitants of remote houses.

Le avventure di Mowgli, il ragazzino cresciuto nella giungla in mezzo ai lupi, del simpatico orso Baloo, della temibile tigre Shere Khan e di altri animali, continuano ad affascinare grandi e piccini. Un classico della letteratura che racconta con grande poesia un mondo selvaggio e allo stesso tempo tenerissimo, dove si diventa grandi apprendendo i valori dell'amicizia, del coraggio e della lealtà.

A collection of seven classic short stories in which felines play a central role. Includes: "Tobermory the Cat That Walked by Himself", "The Vampire Cat", "The Young Man Who Stroked Cats", "A Cargo of Cat", "The Black Cat", and "The Paradise of Cats".

Just So Stories - Amusing and fanciful answers to questions of how animals obtained their individual characteristics. "How the Alphabet Was Made"; "How the Camel Got His Hump"; How the First Letter Was Written"; "The Butterfly That Stamped"; "The Cat That Walked by Himself"; "The Crab That Played with the Sea"; "The Elephant's Child"; "The Sing-Song of Old Man Kangeroo"; "How the Leopard Got His Spots"; "How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin"; "How the Whale Got His Throat"; "The Beginning of the Armadillos".

Written in 1914 by Rudyard Kipling, "For All We Have and Are" exhorts the British people to rally together with courage and strength in the coming desperate struggles.

Rudyard Kipling’s Gentlemen-Rankers first appeared in Barrack-Room Ballads and refers to young men of the privileged classes who may have suffered the indignity of bankruptcy or scandal, and joined the ‘rank-and-file’ of the British Army as privates.

The Ballad of Tommy Atkins was first published as “Tommy” in Kipling’s timeless Barrack-Room Ballads and Other Verses, in the 1890s. ‘Tommy Atkins’, or simply Tommy was a generic name applied to British soldiers from as early as the 18th century, but came into popular parlance during the First World War when troops were simply referred to as “Tommies”. The ballad exposes the bitterness felt by the British soldier to the public’s treatment of their forces in times of peace, and how that alters in wartime.

Originally published as part of the Just So stories, this tale has no animals, but is the endearing story of a Neolithic child and the hilarious ramifications of attempting to request a fresh fishing spear from the village by use of a pictorial letter. As ever, Kipling’s timeless prose is evocatively presented by Phillip J Mather - an excellent listen!