The Jungle Book

Includes quizzes, author information, and information on India's jungles "No man's cub can run with the people of the Jungle," howled Shere Khan. "Give him to me!" When Father Wolf and Mother Wolf find a man-cub in the jungle, they anger the greedy tiger Shere Khan by refusing to surrender it to his jaws, and rear the child as their own. But when little Mowgli grows up, the pack can no longer defend him. He must learn the secret of fire, and with the help of his friends Bagheera the panther and Baloo the bear, he faces his nemesis at last.

Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936) is best known for The Jungle Book, Just So Stories, and Kim. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907.