The Jungle Book

By Rudyard Kipling

I've always loved The Jungle Book. It was one of my favourite movies as a kid and with going to Cubs and Scouts as a kid, of course the whole thing is particularly special for me.
What I didn't realise was that the story of Mowgli is one of a few short-stories that actually make up The Jungle Book. The book I read included Rikki-Tikki-Tavi, Toomai of the Elephants, The White Seal and Her Majesty's Servants.
The new movie blew me away and was the kick I needed to get reading this piece of classic literature.

Synopsis

The Jungle Book introduces Mowgli, the human foundling adopted by a family of wolves. It tells of the enmity between him and the tiger Shere Khan, who killed Mowgli's parents, and of the friendship between  the man-cub and Bagheera, the black panther, and Baloo, the sleepy, brown bear, who instruct Mowgli in the Laws of the Jungle.

Author

Joseph Rudyard Kipling was an English journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist. Kipling's works of fiction include The Jungle Book, Kim, and many short stories, including "The Man Who Would Be King". Wikipedia

 

Other Books 

 The Jungle Book (1894)
Just So Stories (1902)
Kim (1901)
Captains Courageous (1897)
"If—" (1895)
"Gunga Din"(1890)
"The White Man's Burden" (1899)

...and Other works