A man's cub, lost in the Seeonee hills, is taken in by Father and Mother Wolf, taught the Law of the Jungle by Baloo the bear and Bagheera the black panther, rescued from the Monkey-People by the great python Kaa, and grows up to face the tiger Shere Khan. Alongside Mowgli's stories: Kotick the White Seal searching for a safe island, the brave mongoose Rikki-tikki-tavi against the cobras Nag and Nagaina, little Toomai who sees the elephants dance, and the talking animals of an army camp. Rudyard Kipling's 1894 classic, with all of its songs and poems,
