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"Rikki-Tikki-Tavi" is a short story in the 1894 short story collection The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling about adventures of a valiant young Indian grey mongoose. [1] It has often been anthologized and published several times as a short book. Book 5 of Panchatantra, an ancient Indian collection, includes the mongoose and snake story, an ...
The stories in The Jungle Book were inspired in part by the ancient Indian fable texts such as the Panchatantra and the Jataka tales. [7] For example, an older moral-filled mongoose and snake version of the "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi" story by Kipling is found in Book 5 of Panchatantra. [8] In a letter to the American author Edward Everett Hale, Kipling ...
Rikki-Tikki-Tavi is a 1997 retelling of Rudyard Kipling's classic story by Jerry Pinkney about a mongoose that protects a family from two cobras. The book won a Caldecott honor in 1998 for its illustrations.
During her career, she worked as a high school teacher of French language and literature. [2]She was particularly known as a playwright; her works included Rikki-Tikki-Tavi (three-act comedy, 1920), Logodnica lui Don Juan (four-act drama, 1920, revised and expanded in 1962), Anacronicii (four-act drama, 1921), Da capo al fine (one act, performed multiple times on radio, 1931), Pălăria cu ...
"Rikki-Tikki-Tavi", one of Rudyard Kipling's Jungle Book stories, includes a tailorbird couple, Darzee (which means "tailor" in Urdu) and his wife, as two of the key characters. [18] Darzee's wife is said to have feigned injury, but this behaviour is unknown in this species. [19]
Rikki-Tikki-Tavi. Rikki-Tikki-Tavi (Indian grey mongoose) Nag and Nagaina (Indian cobras) – Nag is the Hindi word for "cobra". Darzee – Darzee means "tailor" in Hindi. Chuchundra (Asian house shrew, called a muskrat in the story) – his name is derived from "chuchunder", a term used for his species in India. Karait (common krait)
Like all Heinlein's heroines from this period, she is an intelligent redhead, and clearly modeled on Virginia Heinlein, even having a version of her name and her childhood nickname, Rikki-Tikki-Tavi. Petronius the Arbiter, or Pete, Dan's cat. Highly vocal with a wide range of expressive sounds, he acts as a sounding board for Dan's ruminations ...
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