The Jungle Book

Rudyard Kipling published his collection of stories The Jungle Book in 1894. Poems connect the stories in The Second Jungle Book, which was released in 1895. The majority of the tales centre on Mowgli, an Indian kid raised by wolves and taught self-sufficiency and knowledge by the creatures of the forest. The wolf pack's social structure is described in the novel, as well as the justice and fantastical natural order of things in the jungle. Akela the wolf, Baloo the brown bear, Shere Khan, the haughty Bengal tiger who is Mowgli's opponent, Tabaqui the jackal, Shere Khan's subservient servant, Kaa the python, Bagheera the leopard, and Rikki-tikki-tavi the mongoose are some of the animals whose tales are told in the book.