The Jungle BookRudyard Kipling

The Jungle Book

Rudyard Kipling

1894 · England / India · Stories · ~200 pages

Raised by wolves in the Indian jungle, the boy Mowgli learns the Law of the Jungle from the bear Baloo and the panther Bagheera, and faces the tiger Shere Khan, in a set of fables about belonging and wildness.

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Why read it

The tales behind a hundred films and cartoons, wilder and wiser than their retellings, on law, freedom, and where a creature truly belongs. Perfect read-aloud adventure.

Themes

Identity & self

SettingThe forests of central India

British colonial India seen from the jungle’s side, where animal societies keep laws older and cleaner than the human world at their edge.

About the author

Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936), born in Bombay, drew on the India of his childhood for these animal fables. The first English writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, he remains as beloved as he is debated.