Burlington Public Library

Kipling's classic menagerie comes to dazzling life in this lush adaptation, featuring Sabu as Mowgli, a boy raised by wolves. He gradually reacclimates himself to civilization with the help of his long-lost mother and a beautiful village girl, whose father is convinced that Mowgli is dangerous.

The Tale of Despereaux Based on the heartwarming children's bestselling book, a brave and virtuous mouse with comically oversized ears dreamt of becoming a knight, was banished from his home and set off on a noble quest to rescue a princess and save a kingdom from darkness. Balto II: Wolf Quest Deep in the Alaskan wilderness, Aleu, Balto's headstrong daughter, will seek her own path, tangle with a renegade wolf pack leader and - with a little help...

In WW I dancer Jerry Jones stages an all-soldier show on Broadway, called Yip Yip Yaphank. Wounded in the War, he becomes a producer. In WW II his son Johnny Jones, who was before his father's assistant, gets the order to stage a knew all-soldier show, called THIS IS THE ARMY. But in his pesonal life he has problems, because he refuses to marry his fiancée until the war is over.

Some of Disney's celebrated snakes from The Jungle Book and Tarzan reflect the incredible, and sometimes fearsome, characteristics of these legless reptiles. Learn the truth about their hypnotic eyes and their lightning-quick tongues. Frogs and toads ? are they different? How do they breathe and drink through their skin? These spry amphibians will delight children both in real life and in their sprightly antics from Bambi, Sword in the Stone, and...

Titled after Tobias Schneebaum's 1969 cult classic memoir about his experiences in the Amazon, this is the stranger-than-fiction story of Schneebaum's return to the jungle, 45 years after his original visit.

Phileas Fogg accepts a wager to prove his contention that a man can go around the world in 80 days. After betting his entire fortune, and enlisting the help of his faithful servant Jean Passepartout, Fogg soon finds himself traveling through the jungles of India, war torn Paris and even the Wild West. But Fogg is not as alone as he may think--the Bank of England has been robbed and Fogg is the prime suspect! Now, top detective Wilbur Fix is tailing...

A universal story of loss, courage and triumph, this recounts the extraordinary journey of Aminata Diallo, an indomitable African woman who survives in a world in which everything seems to be against her. Kidnapped by slave traders in West Africa then sold into slavery in South Carolina, Aminata navigates her way through the American Revolution in New York, the isolated refuge of Nova Scotia, and the treacherous jungles of Sierra Leone, before finally...

"An orphaned boy who was raised in the Amazon jungle is brought back to civilization by a priest who knew his father."--Container.

"In a dusty old attic Nat discovers a magical library where famous storybook characters come to life. He makes friends with the fairytale stars from 'Alice in Wonderland,' 'The jungle book,' 'Pinocchio,' 'Puss in boots,' 'Little Red Riding Hood,' 'Jack and the beanstalk,' and more. But nat soon learns that his fairytale friends are in danger and the only way to save them is for Nat to learn to read an ancient spell that will keep the characters alive...