Rikki-Tikki-Tavi
AuthorRudyard Kipling
IllustratorJerry Pinkney
CountryUSA
LanguageEnglish
GenreChildren's literature, picture book, Indian folktales
Published1997 (Morrow Junior Books)
Media typePrint (hardback)
Pages40 (unpaginated)
ISBN9780688143206
OCLC36017251

Rikki-Tikki-Tavi is a 1997 retelling of Rudyard Kipling's classic story by Jerry Pinkney about a mongoose that protects a family from two cobras. The book won a Caldecott honor in 1998 for its illustrations.

Reception

A review of Rikki-Tikki-Tavi by Booklist wrote: "Just as recent picture books have brought the Just So Stories to a new generation of children, this lovely edition has the inimitable language and visual appeal to intrigue a somewhat older group of readers or listeners".[1] School Library Journal wrote: "In this glorious picture book, Pinkney's accessible retelling and dramatic watercolors plunge readers into the lush garden Rikki rules and the life of the family he comes to guard. .. This great story has been given the loving treatment it deserves".[1]

Rikki-Tikki-Tavi has also been reviewed by Publishers Weekly,[2] Kirkus Reviews,[3] and The Horn Book Magazine.[4]

The book was named in a "1997 Capital Choices Noteworthy Book for Children and Teens",[5] and a "1997 CCBC Choice".[6]

References

  1. ^ a b "Rikki-tikki-tavi". Buffalo and Erie County Public Library. Retrieved March 20, 2017.
  2. ^ "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi (starred review)". Publishers Weekly. PWxyz LLC. September 29, 1997. Retrieved March 20, 2017. Full-bodied watercolors showcase visually thrilling confrontations between Rikki-tikki and his slithering enemies, while portraits of Rikki-tikki snuggling with the family are warm without being sappy. A captivating work.
  3. ^ "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi". Kirkus Reviews. Kirkus Media LLC. July 1, 1997. Retrieved March 20, 2017. Excitement and danger ebb and flow throughout the illustrations for this classic story. .. Pinkney puts his heart into a story he loves, and makes it live again.
  4. ^ Rikki-tikki-tavi. Morrow Junior Books. 1997. Retrieved March 20, 2017. What Pinkney's retelling (and mild bowdlerization) of a beloved story from The Jungle Book loses of Kipling's gifted language it gains in pictorial richness. .. Pinkney's Rikki is heroic but never anthropomorphized, which lends the story verisimilitude. ((cite book)): |website= ignored (help)
  5. ^ "Capital Choices Noteworthy Book for Children and Teens: 1998 Books for Ages Seven to Ten" (PDF). capitolchoices.org. Capital Choices. p. 4. Retrieved March 20, 2017.
  6. ^ Kathleen T. Horning; Ginny Moore Kruse; Megan Schliesman (1998). CCBC Choices 1997: New Editions of Classic Literature (PDF). Friends of the CCBC Inc. p. 64. Retrieved March 20, 2017.
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