Rikki-Tikki Tavi - Rudyard Kipling

                                          

This is the story of a boy and his weasel, a bird and a snake, India and the British Empire. 

Rudyard Kipling's dramatic tale, here excerpted from the greater volume of The Jungle Book, is the story of a loyal mongoose Rikki-Tikki Tavi, and the lengths that he must go to protect his adoptive human family.

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Rikki-Tikki Tavi is a Rudyard Kipling short story of just 62 pages.

It is an enchanting tale of a little mongoose who is found by a family after a summer flood and taken back to their bungalow to recover. There he comes across Nag and Nagaina the husband & wife Cobra's. They have set their sites on killing the family especially the little boy Teddy but they hadn't banked on Rikki-Tikki Tavi.  

He may be small but he is strong enough to kill a Cobra snake and he will do anything to protect the family that gave him a home. 

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I hadn't set out to read this book, I was actually looking for something else when I spotted it on my kindle listing and all my childhood memories of this little story came flooding back.

I have always been vertically challenged and this was a story my mother read to me when I was a child to try and instil in me that just because I was smaller than all of my peers that it didn't mean I couldn't achieve anything I set my mind to.

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My next read is from my bookshelf and is 

Happy reading one & all

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