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The Jungle Book opens with three stories and a song about Mowgli, a young boy raised in a jungle by wolves. Mother Wolf and Father Wolf find Mowgli when he is only an infant and take him in as one of their own.
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'The Jungle Book' tells of Mowgli the man-cub, raised in the Seoonee wolf pack, and his enmity with Shere Khan the Tiger who has vowed to prey on him. Rudyard Kipling’s ‘The Jungle Book’ is a collection of short stories featuring anthropomorphic animals told in fable form.
Description. The tales in the book (as well as those in The Second Jungle Book, which followed in 1895 and includes eight further stories, including five about Mowgli) are fables, using animals in an anthropomorphic manner to teach moral lessons.
The Jungle Book is a collection of stories by Rudyard Kipling first published in 1894. Rudyard Kipling was born to a British family living in India and spent the first six years of his life there before being sent to England for schooling.
Summary. Chapters 1 and 2. In Chapter 1 " Mowgli 's Brothers," Shere Khan, the lame tiger, shows up at Mother and Father Wolf's cave, looking for the man-cub the tiger has been hunting. Mother Wolf decides to adopt the baby boy to protect him from Shere Khan and names him Mowgli.
