Ever been in the Jungle?
Come take a wild and fun-filled tour with your very own guide!
See how people just like you live without cars or computers, television or toys.
Find out how they survive,... More > what they eat and what they do for fun. Maybe you'll want to move to the jungle too!
Shane Beresford's debut children's book In the Jungle is easy to read and beautifully illustrated from cover to cover, taking your child on an entertaining and exhilarating tour of the jungle -- where humans are one with nature. Let your child's imagination run free as they discover their own relationship with nature and the environment.< Less
Ever been in the Jungle?
Come take a wild and fun-filled tour with your very own guide!
See how people just like you live without cars or computers, television or toys.
Find out how they survive,... More > what they eat and what they do for fun. Maybe you'll want to move to the jungle too!
Shane Beresford's debut children's book In the Jungle is easy to read and beautifully illustrated from cover to cover, taking your child on an entertaining and exhilarating tour of the jungle -- where humans are one with nature. Let your child's imagination run free as they discover their own relationship with nature and the environment.< Less
"American novelist, essayist, playwright, and short story writer, whose works reflect socialistic views. Upton Sinclair stated in 1903 that "My Cause is the Cause of a man who has never yet... More > been defeated, and whose whole being is one all devouring, God-given holy purpose". Among Sinclair's most famous books is THE JUNGLE (1906). It launched a government investigation of the meatpacking plants of Chicago, and changed the food laws of America. Sinclair's works are still read, although writers with political and social ideals are not popular in the West - or East."< Less
"American novelist, essayist, playwright, and short story writer, whose works reflect socialistic views. Upton Sinclair stated in 1903 that "My Cause is the Cause of a man who has never yet... More > been defeated, and whose whole being is one all devouring, God-given holy purpose". Among Sinclair's most famous books is THE JUNGLE (1906). It launched a government investigation of the meatpacking plants of Chicago, and changed the food laws of America. Sinclair's works are still read, although writers with political and social ideals are not popular in the West - or East."
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This book is about the power of the imagination. A little girl's imagination takes her to the jungle to explore life there. This is a must read for all young readers!
The author is a young, budding... More > novelist. She is interested in sharing her imagination and ideas with the world.< Less
In the Jungle is a novel about two spirited newlyweds who test their love and luck in Hollywood’s fame game.
In the Jungle captures an important stretch of modern historical importance... More > – from 9/11 to the bursting of the housing bubble – through the eyes of a young couple naively striving for the grand facade of stardom. All the while the free birds experience the 'pleasure and pain' of living in ‘the loneliest and most brutal of American cities’ – Los Angeles.< Less
The Jungle is a 1906 novel written by journalist Upton Sinclair. Sinclair wrote the novel with the intention of portraying the life of the immigrant in the United States, but readers were more... More > concerned with the large portion of the book pertaining to the corruption of the American meatpacking industry during the early 20th century, and the book is now often interpreted and taught as a journalist's exposure of the poor health conditions in this industry. The novel depicts in harsh tones poverty, absence of social programs, unpleasant living and working conditions, and hopelessness prevalent among the working class, which is contrasted with the deeply-rooted corruption on the part of those in power. Sinclair's observations of the state of turn-of-the-twentieth-century labor were placed front and center for the American public to see, suggesting that something needed to be changed to get rid of American wage slavery.< Less
It is the end of the 19th century. Like thousands of others, the Rudkus family has emigrated from Lithuania to America in search of a better life. As they settle into the Packingtown neighborhood of... More > Chicago, they find their dreams are unlikely to be realized.< Less
Spunky, a young monkey, was left behind in the jungle, while his mother and siblings went shopping. While his uncle was sleep, Spunky went on a trek with a tiger named Rome, and they became friends.... More > As they explore the jungle, they run into some difficult situations,which was quite an experience for Spunky. Does Spunky ever find his family, or does he get lost in the jungle forever? Read the book to find out what happened to Spunky and Rome.< Less
A Lithuanian man called Jurgis Rudkus, an immigrant to the United States trying to make ends meet. Jurgis believes when he immigrates to the United States that it will be a land of more freedom, but... More > soon his employer's treatment of him disappoints him.
The family had formerly envisioned that Jurgis alone would be able to support them in the United States, but one by one, all of them—the women, the young children, and Jurgis' sick father—have to find jobs in order to contribute to the meager family income.< Less
