The Jungle Book

The Jungle Book is an 1894 collection of stories by the English author Rudyard Kipling. Most of the characters are animals such as Shere Khan the tiger and Baloo the bear, though a principal character is the boy or "man-cub" Mowgli, who is raised in the jungle by wolves. Most stories are set in a forest in India; one place mentioned repeatedly is "Seeonee", in the central state of Madhya Pradesh. A major theme in the book is abandonment followed by fostering, as in the life of Mowgli, echoing Kipling's own childhood. The theme... Wikipedia

• Author:  Rudyard Kipling
• Illustrator:  John Lockwood Kipling (Rudyard's father)
• Series:  The Jungle Book
• Publisher:  Macmillan
• Preceded by:  "In the Rukh"
• Followed by:  The Second Jungle Book
• Text:  ' at Wikisource