The jungle books / Kipling, Rudyard

condensed version.

Presents the "Jungle Books," Rudyard Kipling's classic children's stories featuring such characters as Baloo the bear, Rikki-tikki-tavi the mongoose, and Mowgli, the boy raised by wolves, and includes an introduction, explanatory notes, and the first Mowgli story, "In the Rukh," which was published before the "Jungle Books.".

Chronicles the adventures of Mowgli, a boy raised by wolves in an Indian jungle.