TY - BOOK AU - Kipling, Rudyard TI - Jungle book SN - 9788192321660 U1 - 82-93 PY - 2017/// CY - Kolkata PB - Book Club KW - Children literature N2 - The Jungle Book, first published in 1894, is a collection of stories by English author Rudyard Kipling. It tells the story of Mowgli, a young boy abandoned in the jungle of India and raised by a pack of wolves. With the help of Bagheera, a wise black panther, and a bear called Baloo, the wolves teach Mowgli the ways and laws of the jungle. Along the way he also encounters the foreboding tiger Shere Khan. Including other stories such as that of Rikki-Tikki-Tavi, a heroic mongoose and Toomai, a young elephant handler, Kipling's stories remain as popular today as they ever were ER -