TY - BOOK AU - Kipling, Rudyard, TI - The Jungle book T2 - The works of Rudyard Kipling PY - 1961/// CY - London PB - Macmillan KW - Mowgli (Fictitious character) KW - Juvenile fiction KW - Jungle animals N2 - The Jungle Book (1894) is a collection of stories by English author Rudyard Kipling. The stories are fables, using animals in an anthropomorphic manner to give moral lessons. A principal character is the boy or "man-cub" Mowgli, who is raised in the jungle by wolves. Other characters include Shere Khan the tiger and Baloo the bear. The book has been adapted many times for film and other media ER -