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Book Review of Animal Heroes : Rikki Tiiki Tavi by Rudyard Kipling/Brown Wolf by Jack London

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Cute, funny, and courageous animals are the highlight of this wonderful collection of children's stories.

RIKKI TIKKI TAVI by Rudyard Kipling -- One of the all-time favorite children's stories, featuring the brave little mongoose who struggles to protect the family he loves from the threat of the terrible cobra Naga. Runtime: 33:50. Performed by January Houck.

Brown Wolf by Jack London -- A moving story of a dog torn between two worlds -- the confortable life he lives with the kind family in the California mountains, and the harsh, frozen wastelands of the Yukon, where he was once a great sled-dog. Runtime: 36:03. Performed by Ashley Bogert

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