Download Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book – The Mowgli Stories audiobook from Audible.co.uk for free - £300 voucher to be won by sharing your thoughts

[AngelieMumsnet]

Audible.co.uk has produced a new full-cast dramatisation of Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book – The Mowgli Stories, in association with charity partner the Zoological Society of London (ZSL), and they'd love to hear Mumsnetters' thoughts on it.

Audible.co.uk say "Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book - The Mowgli Stories is available for FREE here. 25p from every download goes to help ZSL build a future for wildlife. This 3-hour audio adaptation of a children’s classic has been brought to life by many well-known voices from British film, TV, radio and comedy, including Bill Bailey as Baloo, Richard E Grant as Kaa and Martin Shaw as Shere Khan.

The partnership between Audible.co.uk and ZSL will help highlight the plight of many of the animals who featured in The Jungle Book and are under threat in the wild, such as the Bengal tiger (Shere Khan). The creation of India’s tiger reserves in the 1970s helped to stabilise numbers, but poaching to meet a growing demand from Asia in recent years has once again put the Bengal tiger at risk. The sloth bear (represented by Baloo), which could once be found throughout India, Nepal, Bhutan and Bangladesh, is now threatened by hunting and habitat loss. Sloth bear numbers continue to decline and it is now listed as vulnerable by IUCN."

You can watch the promo for The Jungle Book – The Mowgli Stories audiobook here:

Download the free The Jungle Book – The Mowgli Stories audiobook here with an Amazon.co.uk account. Audible recommends an audience of 8 years+ for this free audio download.

Once your DC has listened to The Jungle Book – The Mowgli Stories audiobook, head back to this thread to let us know what you and your DC thought of it.

Everyone who adds a comment to this thread on their opinion on The Jungle Book – The Mowgli Stories audiobook will be entered into a prize draw, where one winner will receive a £300 Love2Shop voucher.

Thanks & good luck,
MNHQ

Hello MNTowers - the link doesn't appear to work; it says Error and asks for a promotional code.

Or am I being silly?

Hi Greymalkin - sorry about that, both links should hopefully be working now?

nope :(

It worked for me

No I need a promotional code.

Same thing just happened to me.

Nope

I need a code too

Worked fine for me. Thanks Mumsnet! We'll listen to it in the car and get back to you.

If you search for Jungle Book on the Audible website it says it's free until Sept 8th anyway.

I'm intrigued to know why it's 8+. I'll have to listen to it first but my 4yo loves audio books so I might let him listen to it if there's nothing too terrifying in it.

Non-code-requiring link

Don't know if MNHQ need us to use their specific link, once it's working, though!

Thanks AGnu, that worked. Is that ok HQ?

Thanks AGnu, that works fine.

MNHQ - hope this method is I with you?

Sorry to hear that some of you have had trouble accessing the download. The link should be working now, and we would prefer for you to use the link we have provided, as this promotional code will be available past September 8th.

If anyone is still having trouble, Audible have said:
"For the small number of Mumsnetters having issues downloading the free copy of Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book from Audible, our team can assist you.

Please visit audible-uk.custhelp.com/ and follow these easy steps:

1. Click “Contact Us 24/7”
2. Choose – “Something else” from the menu
3. Choose – “Promotions & Sales” and “I’d like to redeem a promotional code”
4. And the preferred method of contact."

Ooh, fab - will download this for the docs in the morning. Thank you!

I've just downloaded it, if it helps angeliemumsnet the second link which says 'audio book here' gave an error but the first link 'FREE here' worked.
Thanks :)

DS loved it. I always manage to throw in effects whenever I'm reading a story to him and change my tone to match the story, but this was obviously done by people better than me (as confirmed by DS lol). As I'm apparently a 'girl', I have a girly voice and even my aggressive voices can't match the male tones, so he liked that a lot and it was interesting enough for him to finish it off.

Daughter enjoyed it, she listened intently which is a rarity! It's nice to see that classic stories are still appealing to children.

My niece and nephew listened while colouring and we all had a well earned break!

DC enjoyed it - glad she enjoyed such the Classic. A refreshing change from the modern short stories that tend to be instantly forgettable

Both of my children loved listening to this lovely story and wanted to act out some of the characters.

Wow - the first thing to say is "AMAZING"!! From the opening introduction, when the sound effects helps put the listener right in the middle of the jungle, to the classic opening lines of this wonderful story! It brings Kipling's iconic story alive for a whole new generation! Ths is a superb quality recording enhanced using the varied voices of a stellar cast of top British acting talent. My DD (age 5) was really interested in understanding what was happening - she asked lots of questions about the animals that are mentioned/featured, as well as enjoying Mowgli's story. It is truly wonderful to share the original story with both my DDs, who sadly only knew Disney's version up to now. This is an audio book that we will listen to again and again! I also really hope that it helps to highlight the plight of these incredible animals, who have sadly been under threat of extinction for far too long A big thumbs up for this excellent Audible book and 10/10 from both of my DDs and I

We all really enjoyed this - but probably me more than anyone - love love love this tale!

My little boy loved it as before now he only knew of the character from the Disney version as he had no interest in the book

This is superb, the sound effects, the actors' voices, it was excellent.

DS1(13) has really loved it, he's listened to it a couple of times at bedtime now. DS2(10) didn't want to listen to it, purely based on the fact that he thought the Disney cartoon was rubbish - he was really against the whole idea of it. He's another one that listens to audiobooks at bedtime, and his latest one wasn't very long so when it finished he listened to this until we get another credit on Audible and he really enjoyed it.

So well done Audible on another successful audio book.