The Jungle Book, because of its moral tone, came to be used as a motivational book by the Cub Scouts, a junior element of the Scouting movement.

The title of each is given in italics in the list of stories below. Kotick, The White Seal seeking for his people a haven where they would be safe from hunters, has been considered a metaphor for Zionism, then in its beginning.Īs with much of Kipling's work, each of the stories is preceded by a piece of verse, and succeeded by another. The most famous of the other stories are probably ' Rikki- Tikki- Tavi', the story of a heroic mongoose, and 'Toomai of the Elephants', the tale of a young elephant-handler. The best-known of them are the three stories revolving around the adventures of an abandoned 'man cub' Mowgli who is raised by wolves in the Indian jungle. Kipling put in them nearly everything he knew or 'heard or dreamed about the Indian jungle.' Other readers have interpreted the work as allegories of the politics and society of the time. The verses of The Law of the Jungle, for example, lay down rules for the safety of individuals, families and communities. The tales in the book (and also those in The Second Jungle Book which followed in 1895, and which includes five further stories about Mowgli) are fables, using animals in an anthropomorphic manner to give moral lessons. These books were written when Kipling lived in Vermont.

The original publications contained illustrations, some by Rudyard's father, John Lockwood Kipling. All of the stories were published in magazines in 1893–4. After about ten years in England, he went back to India and worked there for about six-and-half years. Kipling was born in India and spent the first six years of his childhood there. The Jungle Book (1894) is a collection of stories written by Rudyard Kipling.

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