Ask the children to look at the front cover. What do you think the book will be about? What things can you see on the front cover?
Who do you think would enjoy this story and why?
Where do you think this story is set? Why? What could the laws of the Jungle be?
Now read the blurb – were any of your predictions correct?
The following questions are designed as prompts only – allow the children to come up with their own questions and ideas. They will be much more engaged this way.
The Jungle Book introduces Mowgli, the human foundling adopted by a family of wolves.
It tells of the enmity between him and the tiger Shere Khan, who killed Mowgli's parents, and of the friendship between the man-cub and Bagheera, the black panther, and Baloo, the sleepy brown bear, who instructs Mowgli in the Laws of the Jungle.