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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.
Illustration by John Lockwood Kipling (Rudyard's father) "Toomai of the Elephants" is a short story by Rudyard Kipling about a young elephant-handler. It was first published in the December 1893 issue of St. Nicholas magazine and reprinted in the collection of Kipling short stories, The Jungle Book (1894). [1]
The Jungle is a novel by American muckraker and author Upton Sinclair, known for his efforts to expose corruption in government and business in the early 20th century. [1] In 1904, Sinclair spent seven weeks gathering information while working incognito in the meatpacking plants of the Union Stock Yards in Chicago for the socialist newspaper Appeal to Reason, which published the novel in ...
"Kaa's Hunting" is an 1893 short story by Rudyard Kipling featuring Mowgli. Chronologically the story falls between the first and second halves of "Mowgli's Brothers", and is the second story in The Jungle Book (1894) where it is accompanied by the poem "Road Song of the Bandar-log".
In the 1942 film, Mowgli recruits Hathi and his herd to help with banishing the humans for their crimes, but it leads to rescuing animals when a fire threatens the jungle. In the anime series Jungle Book Shōnen Mowgli, one episode shows Mowgli, Hathi, Baloo, Bagheera, and Raksha leading an army of elephants, buffaloes, deer, wild boars, and ...
In the CGI series The Jungle Book, Rikki-Tikki-Tavi is an occasional character who is a friend of Mowgli. The story was adapted as a picture book of the same name in 1997 by Jerry Pinkney. Donovan’s album Open Road has the song Riki Tiki Tavi, which has lyrics based off the story. [6] [7]
Mowgli, being human, is the only creature in the jungle that does not fear fire, so he steals a pot of burning coals from a nearby village in order to use it against Shere Khan. The young wolves prevent Akela from catching his prey, and at that night's meeting, Shere Khan demands that Akela be killed and the man-cub given to him.
First US edition, Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1936, cover by Kurt Wiese. All the Mowgli Stories is a collection of short stories by Rudyard Kipling.As the title suggests, the book is a chronological compilation of the stories about Mowgli from The Jungle Book and The Second Jungle Book, together with "In the Rukh" (the first Mowgli story written, although the last in chronological order).