Parade-Song of the Camp Animals parodies several well-known songs and poems, including Bonnie Dundee. Her Majesty's Servants (originally titled "Servants of the Queen"): On the night before a military parade a British soldier eavesdrops on a conversation between the camp animals. This story has also been published as a short book. Toomai of the Elephants: Toomai, a ten-year old boy who helps to tend working elephants, is told that he will never be a full-fledged elephant-handler until he has seen the elephants dance. Rikki- Tikki- Tavi: Rikki-Tikki the mongoose defends a human family living in India against a pair of cobras. The White Seal: Kotick, a rare white-furred seal, searches for a new home for his people, where they will not be hunted by humans. The story's title is taken from the poem "The Tyger" by William Blake. But he has trouble adjusting to human life, and Shere Khan still wants to kill him. Tiger! Tiger!: Mowgli returns to the human village and is adopted by Messua and her husband who believe him to be their long-lost son Nathoo. When Mowgli is abducted by monkeys, Baloo and Bagheera set out to rescue him with the aid of Chil the Kite and Kaa the python. Kaa's Hunting: This story takes place before Mowgli fights Shere Khan. This story has also been published as a short book in its own right. Mowgli's Brothers: A boy is raised by wolves in the Indian Jungle with the help of Baloo the bear and Bagheera the black panther and elephants, and then has to fight the tiger Shere Khan. The complete book, having passed into the public domain, is on-line at Project Gutenberg's official website and elsewhere. Akela, the head wolf in The Jungle Book, has become a senior figure in the movement, the name being traditionally adopted by the leader of each Cub Scout pack. This use of the book's universe was approved by Kipling after a direct petition of Robert Baden-Powell, founder of the Scouting movement, who had originally asked for the author's permission for the use of the Memory Game from Kim in his scheme to develop the morale and fitness of working-class youths in cities. The Jungle Book, because of its moral tone, came to be used as a motivational book by the Cub Scouts, a junior element of the Scouting movement.
The title of each is given in italics in the list of stories below. Kotick, The White Seal seeking for his people a haven where they would be safe from hunters, has been considered a metaphor for Zionism, then in its beginning.Īs with much of Kipling's work, each of the stories is preceded by a piece of verse, and succeeded by another. The most famous of the other stories are probably " Rikki- Tikki- Tavi", the story of a heroic mongoose, and "Toomai of the Elephants", the tale of a young elephant-handler. The best-known of them are the three stories revolving around the adventures of an abandoned 'man cub' Mowgli who is raised by wolves in the Indian jungle. Kipling put in them nearly everything he knew or "heard or dreamed about the Indian jungle." Other readers have interpreted the work as allegories of the politics and society of the time. The verses of The Law of the Jungle, for example, lay down rules for the safety of individuals, families and communities. 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 in an anthropomorphic manner to give moral lessons. These books were written when Kipling lived in Vermont. The original publications contained illustrations, some by Rudyard's father, John Lockwood Kipling. All of the stories were published in magazines in 1893–4. After about ten years in England, he went back to India and worked there for about six-and-half years. Kipling was born in India and spent the first six years of his childhood there.
The Jungle Book (1894) is a collection of stories written by Rudyard Kipling.
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