THE JUNGLE BABY - A Children's Jungle Tale from Old India: G. E. Farrow

By G. E. Farrow

There was once a little European baby boy called Bab-ba, he had bright blue eyes and golden curls, and he had an Indian Ayah  for his nurse. She had been with Bab-ba ever since he was baby in long robes, and she was very fond of him. Her name was Jeejee-walla, but the everyone  called her Ayah.
Bab-ba’s Father was a British Officer in India, and they lived in a beautiful white house on the Simla Hills in Northern India. The house had a big verandah running all around it. Round about the verandah was a garden, and outside the garden the jungle stretched for miles and miles, and in the jungle were all sorts of beasts and birds, including Hoodoo the snake who was always up to something.
One day Hoodoo happened to visit Bab-ba’s garden and happened to spy Bab-Ba playing with Ayah, Mioux-Mioux the cat and Woof-Woof the dog. Hoodoo lay in the sun and watched and hatched an evil plan………
What was the plan you ask? Well you’ll have to download and read this book to find out for yourself!
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George Edward Farrow born in Ipswich in England, was a noted British children's book author of whose life little is known. During his literary career Farrow wrote more than thirty books for children.
Though he wrote adventure tales and poetry, Farrow was best known for his nonsense books written in the tradition of Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, especially his Wallypug series
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KEYWORDS/TAGS: Bab-ba, accident, angry, Ark, asleep, Ayah, Bab-ba, baby, Bear, beasts, beautiful, belong, birds, Bluf, British, crawl, Elephant, European, Father, flowers, forest, funny, Goodbye, Haste, hissing, hole, Hoodo the snake, India, Jeejee-walla, kiss, love, malicious, Mioux-Mioux, Mongoose, naughty, Noah, Officer, wooff-Wooff, woof-Woof, Poon-dah, Prowl the Wolf, rabbit, rainbow, Simla, Snake, sly, tail, Tig the Tiger, Tiv, rikki tikki tavi, trumpet, verandah, Wolf

• Language: English
• Publisher: Abela Publishing
• Release date: Dec 22, 2019
• ISBN: 9788835349297

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