The Jungle Book: Illustrated (1894) is a collection of stories by British Nobel laureate Rudyard Kipling. The stories were first published in magazines in 1893–94.The original publications contain illustrations, some by Rudyard’s father, John Lockwood Kipling. Kipling was born in India and spent the first six years of his childhood there. After about ten years in England, he went back to India and worked there for about six-and-half years.These stories were written when Kipling lived in Vermont. 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 to give moral lessons. Stories: Mowgli’s Brothers · Kaa’s Hunting · Tiger! Tiger! · Rikki-Tikki-Tavi · Toomai of the Elephants · Letting in the Jungle · Red Dog
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