The Jungle Book (soundtrack) by the RIAA, and was later nominated for an Grammy Award for Best Album for Children. Another version, simply titled "The Jungle Book", was issued on the Buena Vista Records label, featuring less narration and dialogue to be marketed for adults. It was first reissued on CD in 1990, as Disneyland Records was reworked into Walt Disney Records. Disneyland Records issued another soundtrack album in 1967, "Songs from Walt Disney’s The Jungle Book and other Jungle Favorites", which featured reworked jazz versions of the film's songs plus two covers, performed by Louis Prima and his band under the title "The
The Jungle Book as both noble savage and embryo good citizen, to see that the "Jungle Books" .. give their readers a vicarious experience of adventure both as freedom and as service to a just State". Sayan Mukherjee, writing for the Book Review Circle, calls "The Jungle Book" "One of the most enjoyable books of my childhood and even in adulthood, highly informative as to the outlook of the British on their 'native population'." The academic Jopi Nyman argued in 2001 that the book formed part of the construction of "colonial English national identity" within Kipling's "imperial project". In Nyman's view, nation, race