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April 5, 2025; Update

    Hello, dear readers! Today is a very special day - it's the 1 year anniversary of this blog! Yay!!

    To celebrate, the first 3 readers to comment on this post can each share their 3 favourite quotes - and they might just make it onto this blog!

    Thanks to all those who enjoy this blog, and I hope this past year of posts have been just as lovely for you readers. Thank you for all the views, as they are the things that help me keep this blog going strong. 

"Happiness comes when your work and words are of benefit to yourself and others." -- Buddha --

 “It is always fatal to have music or poetry interrupted.” ― George Eliot

The Jungle Book

Title: The Jungle Book

Author: Rudyard Kipling

Rating: ★★★★★

Ages: 8 - 14

    "The Tiger's roar filled the cave with thunder. Mother Wolf shook herself clear of the cubs and sprang forward, her eyes, like two green moons in the darkness, facing the blazing eyes of Shere Khan. 'The man's cub is mine. . . . He shall live to run with the Pack and to hunt with the Pack; and in the end, look you, hunter of little naked cubs, he shall hunt thee.'"

    When Mowgli the young Man-cub wanders into the jungle one day, he is adopted by the wolf pack. With help from Baloo the Bear and Bagheera the Black Panther, they teach him the laws of the jungle. Mowgli's fearless adventures are featured in the enduring stories and poems of The Jungle Book, along with tales of many other favorite characters, such as the mongoose Rikki-Tikki-Tavi and Toomai of the Elephants.

 “Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.” – George Washington

"If every fool wore a crown, we should all be kings." -- Welsh Proverb --