Maia

From The Pardusian Chronicles

 a0a0              This review is from:       Just read the preivous review (about  simplifying' the language in Jungle Book). I am reading the ORIGINAL text JB to my eight year old son (for over a week now), and he's not once indicated that the language puzzles him.  He did ask me why Mowgli uses thee and thou and wouldst while talking with the animals, but  accepted my explanation without demur. Reminds me of the lines from an Elinor Wylie poem  Our mutable tongue is like the sea  Curled wave and shattering thunder-fit;  Dangle in strings of sand shall he  Who smooths the ripples out of it.  Say it out loud, and feel what it does to your mouth and face   that's what Kipling's prose does.