There’s one in every playground: the hyperactive kid who doesn’t mean to offend, but drives everyone else to distraction. In “The Garden of Rikki Tikki Tavi,” it’s not a child, but a mongoose. Y ...
When I was a kid, one of my favorite animated specials was Chuck Jones’ “Rikki-Tikki-Tavi.” Rudyard Kipling’s story about a mongoose protecting a family from a pair of nefarious cobras enchanted my ...