Dear Mr. Kipling,
I would just like to apologize on behalf of present humanity for what Disney did for your book. Like most people I grew up watching the Disney version of The Jungle Book. I loved it. I loved the animals that could talk, and their crazy antics throughout the jungle. All this belongs to your book. I finally read your book after 21 years of watching the movie. They are NOT the same. I'm not saying that one is better or worse than the other, they're just different.
I expected the book to be a longer version of the movie. More stories about Mowgli and his friends. More adventures throughout the jungle. Instead, I got three chapters about Mowgli, and then a collection of short stories about various animal/human interactions. I felt lost and confused. Disney has once again let me down. I don't know why I keep trusting them to tell the story as the author(s) intended. Most of the time, when I read a book that Disney based their movie on, I just get disappointed. Like with Alice and Wonderland (see my post from last summer about that one).
I wish you were still alive to sue Disney for what they've done to your book. They've raised several generations believing that The Jungle Book follows one story, when really... it's so much more.
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