Insatiable curiosity that must be satisfied no matter what could anything be more childlike than that? Rikki Tikki Tavi, the adorably mischievous hero of Rudyard Kipling's timeless The Jungle Book, may be a mongoose, but kids and their parents will find his behavior endearingly familiar. Whether he's accidentally causing havoc or impulsively getting into trouble, his friends just keep loving him?and young readers will too.

Here's a tale for every child who does something just because he's been told �DON'T!” Rikki Tikki Tavi's like that, too. So when he's warned to stay right in front of the house, he can't resist wandering farther and farther away…straight into the clutches of a sneaky snake in the wild grass who's out to cause trouble for the good-hearted mongoose.