wild children

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wild children

Tarzan of the apes

1999
A baby boy, left alone in the African jungle after the deaths of his parents, is adopted by an ape and raised to manhood without ever seeing another human being.

The jungle books

1998
Presents the "Jungle Books," Rudyard Kipling's classic children's stories featuring such characters as Baloo the bear, Rikki-tikki-tavi the mongoose, and Mowgli, the boy raised by wolves, and includes an introduction, explanatory notes, and the first Mowgli story, "In the Rukh," which was published before the "Jungle Books.".

Tarzan

1999
A baby boy, left alone in the African jungle after the death of his parents, is adopted by an ape and raised to manhood without ever seeing another human being.

When I met the wolf girls

2007
Seven-year-old Bulu describes events surrounding the arrival of two wolf girls at her orphanage, including attempts to teach them to eat properly and to speak.

Animal land

2011
When Monoko the tanuki stumbles across a strange creature -- a human baby, the likes of which has never been seen before -- Monoko wonders is she and the baby can team up to protect the tanuki pack from vicious wildcats.

Disney's Tarzan

1999
A baby boy, left alone in the African jungle after the deaths of his parents, is adopted by an ape and raised to manhood without ever seeing another human being.

Victor

a novel based on the life of the Savage of Aveyron
1998
A novel based on the work of Dr. Jean Marc Itard who spent the years shortly after the French Revolution working with a "savage" boy whom he called Victor, trying to prove he was not an idiot and to teach him how to live in human society.

Tarzan

adapted from the classic novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs
1999
A baby boy, left alone in the African jungle after the deaths of his parents, is adopted by an ape and raised to manhood without ever seeing another human being.

The wild boy

1998
Relates the story of a boy who grew up like a wild animal in the forests of France and was later captured and studied by doctors in Paris, but never became completely civilized.

The savage

2008
Following the death of his father, Blue Baker starts to get picked on by the town bully and so begins writing a story about a savage child who lives in the woods. When the "savage" pays a visit to the bully, however, Blue starts to wonder if there is any real difference between himself and the savage.

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