Hi again, kids! Ms. Booksy here at Cool School.
Are you ready to read Chapter 4 of The Jungle Book?
Yeah, so am I!
In the last chapter Baloo, Bagheera, and Kaa were on their way to rescue Mowgli from the Monkey City.
Okay, let’s get started!
Mowgli was still waiting for the monkeys to come back with some food for her empty belly.
I’ve been waiting FOREVER!
Whoa! Was that my stomach?! Pardon me!
Ugggh, I wonder what’s taking those monkeys so long?
Which monkeys?
You! You said you were getting something for me to eat.
Us? Looks like we’re all out of food. Sorry!
But I'm starving!
OMG! What was that?
My stomach!
I think I'm just gonna go home! I need dinner!
Why would you do that? You’re so happy here!
Yeah, you love it!
See how happy you are?
I’m not, though. You’re just saying that.
You're laughing! See?
Stop! I’m ticklish!
We’re having so much fun! We are so happy!
No, we are not! I’m just tired and hungry!
Sheesh, sounds like you’re very hungry!
Uh, that one wasn’t my stomach...
Huh?
Oo oo ah!
Bagheera! Oh, thank goodness! Where’s Baloo? Are you all alone?
Hey! There’s just one panther and all of us! Let’s get him!
MS. BOOKSY: All the monkeys pounced on Bagheera, shrieking and laughing.
Jumping on his head, poking his nose, and just doing all sorts of annoying stuff
Just when Mowgli thought maybe the monkeys were going to win,
she heard a loud roar.
Baloo!
Better late than never!
MS. BOOKSY: Baloo jumped into the fray, tossing laughing monkeys out one by one.
But they climbed all over Baloo, covering his eyes
and tickling him and causing him to squirm like he was dancing!
Hey! You're a good dancer!
I'm not dancing! Stop, I can't see!
Come on, guys! The monkeys are winning!
Yay! We're bad ticklers!
Ow! Oh, I hope they win this monkey fight soon!
MS BOOKSY: Fiiiinally, Kaa appeared.
She had insisted that she come from behind for a dramatic sneak attack.
Oh, remember, that I told you that Kaa was not a snake who bites?
Well, Kaa WAS a snake who butts.
She coils and then strikes, head­butting her target with python force!
Like that!
Ahhh! It’s Kaa! Scatter!
MS BOOKSY: And just like that all the monkeys shrieked and scrambled to hide in the shadows.
Why didn’t we just start with Kaa?
Yeah, you go in first next time.
There won’t be a next time. Will there, monkeys?
No, Kaa!
If you mess with Mowgli, you’re messing with me! Understood?
Yes, Kaa.
Sorry, Kaa.
Yeah! We win, you lose!
That’s enough, Mowgli. Now say ‘thank you’ to Kaa.
Thank you, Ms. Kaa. You’re a very fine snake.
I like that thing you do when you fly and head­butt stuff.
Maybe I’ll teach you sometime.
Yeah!
Be a good little human cub, Mowgli.
Baloo and Bagheera care ssso about you.
Okay, I will, Kaa.
All right, time for dinner! Sssee ya!
Yeah, let’s eat, too! I’m starved!
You don’t want what Kaa’s having, trust me.
Definitely not. Let’s go home.
BOOKSY: And the three walked back to the their part of the jungle, tired, but happy to be together again.
But hold on kids...
Oh no! Is that...
Shir Kahn!
And that’s the end of Chapter 4! I’m so glad that Baloo and Bagheera and Mowgli are reunited!
And, if you missed chapters 1, 2, and 3. Stay tuned because they are coming up next!
Hey there boys and girls! I'm Ms. Booksy!
And it's time for brand new story right here at Cool School!
Today's story is The Jungle Book.
I love this story so much!
And I'm extra excited because we're going to read it in Chapters!
You know, we'll start with chapter 1 and then read chapter 2...
You get the idea!
So here we go. Chapter 1 of the Jungle Book, Cool School Style.
Once upon a time in the Seeonee hills (that’s in India, where the story takes place!),
a mother and father wolf got married and started their wolf family!
They had their own litter of wolf cubs, four furry pups,
and they lived in a cozy little cave. They were a happy little wolf pack!
Then along came Tabaqui, the super annoying jackal.
Hellooo, wolves!
He he he he ha!
MS BOOKSY: Ugh, Tabaqui was always making mischief and getting into everybody’s business.
Sometimes he went totally bonkers and ran around yowling and biting everyone in sight!
Hello, Tabaqui.
I just came by to say what lovely baby wolves you have.
Gee, thanks.
Aaannnd to tell you that Shere Khan is going to be sharing your hunting grounds this winter.
He he he!
What??
MS BOOKSY: Okay, here’s the deal with Shere Khan.
He’s this pesky tiger who lived in a jungle twenty miles away
(which is pretty far if you don't have a car!)
[beep!]
He can't hunt here!
That's against the law of the jungle!
MS. BOOSKY: Father wolf was right.
The law of the jungle was pretty clear.
No loud music,
no littering,
and definitely no hunting in another group’s territory!
That just wasn't cool!
We don’t want him here! He eats the cows and makes the humans angry.
FATHER WOLF: And then the hunters come. Shere Khan is very bad.
Whatever, just thought you'd like to know
He he ha!
[growl]
Oh wait, there he is now. Gotta go!
He IS hunting. That rotten—
Quiet! He's close.
MS. BOOKSY: Father Wolf went out to see what was going on
He heard a noise in the bushes and started to take a giant leap,
but then he saw something crazy!
And he dropped to the ground!
What did Father Wolf see?
It was a baby hanging from a tree!
A human cub!
MS BOOKSY: Father Wolf got the baby—
I know, it looks dangerous, but wolves carry their own babies that like that all the time.
Still, Father Wolf made sure to be extra gentle
Awwww, she’s so sweet!
Look at the itty bitty paws! So cute!!
FATHER WOLF: And look! She's so brave!
Taking food from a wolf!
MS. BOOKSY: Mother and Father Wolf decided they would adopt the baby girl
and raise her as their own.
Happy ending, right?
Not exactly...there was a problem.
They had to get the entire animal council to agree to let the baby stay.
A lot of animals didn’t like people,
because sometimes people have come in and
chopped down trees,
and light fires,
and hunt animals!
So there was a pretty good chance they would all say—
No! No way! Get her out of here!
MS BOOKSY: That was Akela, the leader of the wolf pack.
But Akela—
Nooo! She smells funny.
Besides, Shere Khan will want this cub for himself.
Take her away!
The kid stays.
MS BOOKSY: That was Baloo, the bear.
He wasn’t a scary bear, but he was the jungle’s only schoolteacher,
so the animals usually did what he said.
Well...I guess if Baloo says it’s okay.
I say so too!
MS BOOKSY: And that’s Bagheera, the black panther.
He wasn’t technically part of the animal council,
but he was so strong and fierce, that no one dared disagree.
We have a lot we can learn from the humans.
This cub might teach us something one day!
MS BOOKSY: And just like that, the little baby was accepted by the animals of the Seeonee jungle.
Mother Wolf was so happy!
She named her new baby Mowgli.
Mommy!
MS BOOKSY: Mowgli’s brothers grew much faster than she did,
but soon she grew into a big, strong kid!
Hey! I'm Mowgli!
Cool!
Hi kids! It’s time for Story Time at Cool School with me, Ms. Booksy!
Are you ready for Chapter 2 of The Jungle Book? I sure am!
In the first chapter, (which we decided to call Chapter 1)
we met all the animals of the Seeonee hills and, of course, little Mowgli
Ok, get ready. Let's see what happens in chapter 2!
Ah! Here we are.
Baby Mowgli grew up to be a big, strong kid.
Wow! I am strong!
Hey again!
MS. BOOKSY: Mowgli learned the ways of the jungle from her teacher, Baloo.
I learned how to pounce.
And how to fetch honey!
Ah!
And how to dance!
Cha!
MS. BOOKSY: One of Mowgli’s favorite things to do was make other animal sounds.
She liked to show off for Baloo and Bagheera.
I learned a snake sound!
Hiss!
A parrot!
Squawk! Polly wants a cracker!
Really? Polly wanna cracker?
And a bear!
Rooooaaaar!
Hey! I don’t sound like that!
You do when I pull your tail.
You’ve never pulled my—
Roar!
See? I know all kinds of things.
Like how monkeys talk,
oo oo ahh ahh oo oo oo
And how they eat their lice.
MS. BOOKSY: Suddenly Bagheera got very serious.
How do you know so much about the monkeys?
They showed me!
MS. BOOKSY: Uh ­oh, that was a mistake.
Mowgli knew she wasn’t supposed to play with the monkeys.
Baloo had told her so, but he hadn’t said why she couldn’t play with them.
So naturally, that made her so curious that she wanted nothing more than to play with them.
It’s okaaay, Bagheera. They were fun.
And they said I could be their leader!
The monkeys don’t have leaders. They are tricking you.
Nuh-uh, they were nice!
Mowgli, you are still young
We've lived in the jungle a long time and we know what's best.
MS. BOOKSY: See, the thing with the monkeys is they were just too silly.
These monkeys in the Seeonee jungle were totally bananas!
They spend all day jump around in the trees, causing a ruckus!
They dropped things from way high up,
making a huge mess and sometimes bonking innocent animals on the head!
You must never talk to the monkeys again, Mowgli.
They are baaad news!
See what I mean?!
All right, time for your nap!
Okaaaay.
MS. BOOKSY: Bad timing, though... The monkeys were not too happy with what they had heard.
What’s so bad about us?
Come on! We're not so bad!
Let’s teach them a lesson!
What's a lesson?
I don't know!
Let's take Mowgly and play with her!
Yeah!
MS. BOOKSY: The monkeys swooped down and snatched up Mowgli.
I think they call this kidnapping
cuz she's a kid and she's napping!
He he he!
MS. BOOKSY: The monkeys all hooted and howled.
They weren’t smart enough to be quiet and their crazy chitter-­chatter woke Bagheera.
Uh, are we allowed to do this?
Probably not.
But we'll bring her back!
Maybe!
MS. BOOKSY: The monkeys all hooted and howled even louder than the last time they hooted and howled!
Rooaar!
Uh-oh! The big kitty-cat sees us!
Leeet's get outta here!
MS. BOOKSY: And up into the trees they went, taking Mowgli with them.
She woke up and realized where she was—
Ahhhh!
MS. BOOKSY: And who she was with!
AHHHH!
But down on the ground, Bagheera and Baloo were on a mission.
We must save Mowgli!
Hi kids! Ms. Booksy here at Cool School!
It’s finally time to jump into Chapter 3 of the Jungle Book! Yay!
At the end of Chapter 2, Mowgli had just been snatched up by the monkeys!
I wonder what will happen next... let's find out!
The Jungle Book, Chapter Three...
There’s Mowgli, still being carried by the hooting and howling monkeys!
Mowgli: Heeeeellllp!
Then Mowgli saw her friend, Chil. He's a type of bird called a Kite.
Mowgli, What're you doing with the monkeys? Baloo’s gonna be so mad!
Help me, Chil! I was—oh wait!
I should switch to your language so the monkeys don’t understand.
Ok! Just whistle and that'll sound like bird talk.!
MS BOOKSY: That meant
And Chil said
Mowlgi said:
And Chil said:
Good thing Baloo taught Mowgli all the languages of the jungle!
Speaking of Baloo, he and Bagheera were planning their rescue mission.
Baloo thought they should wear ninja costumes and try some kung fu...
Hiya!
But Bagheera pointed out that was really more of a panda bear thing.
Then Bagheera said maybe they could set up a banana trap,
gather all the bananas in the jungle to lure the monkeys away from Mowgli and then pounce!
But the bananas were way up in the trees—
it would take WAY too long for a bear and panther to climb around picking bananas!
Finally, they settled on Kaa. Who’s Kaa, you ask?
Kaa was a snake!
Oh, but don’t worry, she won’t bite!
Kaa was the one creature who could really scare the monkeys straight.
They were terrified of snakes!
Yet, the monkeys were always chattering about how silly Kaa was,
how yucky it was when she molted her skin
(which means her skin falls off. Don't ask!).
The monkeys also teased her for not having any arms or legs or hair!
So off Baloo and Bagheera went to Kaa.
Hellooo
Did you bring me a sssnack?
A nice mouse or a mole or a sssmoothie?
Maybe a mouse smoothie?
That would be great!
No...I could go get some honey if you want.
No thanksss
We’ve come to tell you that the monkeys are up to something awful!
Ugh, the Bandar!
MS. BOOKSY: That’s the Hindi word for monkeys!
What are they up to thisss time?
Well, they’ve taken our human cub, Mowgli.
Yesss, Mowgli. I’ve heard of her. And what does that have to do with me?
Well, we need help. The monkeys are scared of you!
True, but I just woke up from a long nap. And I just molted.
I can't go into a monkey battle and get my new ssskin all ssscuffed up!
The monkeys have been saying all kinds of things about you.
They said you’re stinky! And, and they said you’re really just a large WORM!
Baloo, I can tell you’re just trying to make me angry so I’ll go rescue little Mowgli.
You don’t need my help. Monkeys are way too lazy to take her very far.
The monkeys said you’d be too chicken.
Chicken! Actually, I could really go for some chicken right now...
A chicken sssmoothie would be sssuper great!
MS. BOOKSY: And at that moment Chil swooped in and squawked.
Ooh, now that’s a chicken.
Don't look at me like I'm a snack!
Relax, I much prefer a nice juicy mouse
Ew, gross!
Anyway, I came to tell Baloo and Bagheera that the monkeys have taken Mowgli to the Monkey City!
Not the monkey city!
MS. BOOKSY: Oh no, kids! The Monkey City was very far away.
And that meant that the monkeys were serious about keeping Mowgli.
They usually got bored and forgot all their silly plans,
but if they took her all the way to their faraway city, then they must mean business...
Monkey business.
Good thing for Mowgli, monkey business isn't all bad
At first it was kind of fun!
BOOKSY: The Monkey City had once been a human village with people houses and people stuff,
so the monkeys liked to pretend they were humans whenever they were there.
They put on clothes,
pretended to read books,
and said things like “I need a vacation!”
I didn’t know anything about being a person, even though I am one, but it seemed like fun!
They even held a celebration in my honor!
Oo oo ah ah! Let us sing a song for our new leader, Mowgli!
Their singing was terrible, so let’s skip over that part.
Oh! You wanna hear it? Okay, but I warned you...
For she’s a jolly good fellow!
Which nobody can deny!
Thank you! Thank you!
Now our new leader will show us how to weave sticks and grass together to make baskets for our bananas!
Ok! So, you take some grass in each hand and then you have to—
Oo oo oo! Ah ah ah!
Ahem!
Excuse me. I thought you wanted to learn.
What are you doing with all that grass? Making a salad?
No. But hey, I am kinda hungry. What have you got to eat around here?
Let us go fetch you some food, Captain Mowgli!
MS. BOOKSY: The monkeys scoured to and fro, gathering nuts and fruits for Mowgli,
but they quickly forgot all about her and ate the snacks themselves.
Dee­licious! Now I need a nap!
MS. BOOKSY: While the monkeys napped,
Baloo, Bagheera, and Kaa were on the other side of the jungle planning the big rescue.
It’s gonna take all night for us to get to Mowgli!
Why don’t you just wait here, Baloo. Kaa and I can go.
No way! I’m coming with you!
How do I say this without sounding ruuude...you’re too slooow
Am not! I cant run super fast! Watch!
You guys go ahead. I'll just follow as fast as I can.
MS. BOOKSY: Kaa and Bagheera raced toward the Monkey City.
Both were lightning fast!
Meanwhile Baloo kept up a steady, slow jog behind them
You can do it, big bear. You got this, buddy. Just keep [big breath in, out] going!
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