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This is an omnibus edition of all the stories published in The Jungle Book and The Second Jungle Book.

The Jungle Books can be regarded as classic stories told by an adult to children. But they also constitute a complex literary work of art in which the whole of Kipling's philosophy of life is expressed in miniature. They are best known for the 'Mowgli' stories; the tale of a baby abandoned and brought up by wolves, educated in the ways and secrets of the jungle by Kaa the python, Baloo the bear, and Bagheera the black panther. The stories, a mixture of fantasy, myth, and magic, are underpinned by Kipling's abiding preoccupation with the theme of self-discovery, and the nature of the 'Law'.

Table of Contents:

• Mowgli's Brothers - shortstory
• Hunting-Song of the Seeonee Pack - poem
• Kaa's Hunting - shortstory
• Road-Song of the Bandar-Log - poem
• 'Tiger! Tiger!' - shortstory
• Mowgli's Song - poem
• The White Seal - shortstory
• Lukannon - poem
• Rikki-Tikki-Tavi - shortstory
• Darzee's Chaunt - poem
• Toomai of the Elephants - shortstory
• Shiv and the Grasshopper - poem
• Her Majesty's Servants - shortstory
• Parade-Song of the Camp Animals - poem
• How Fear Came - shortstory
• The Law of the Jungle - poem
• The Miracle of Purun Bhagat - shortstory
• A Song for Kabir - poem
• Letting In the Jungle - shortstory
• Mowgli's Song Against People - poem
• The Undertakers - shortstory
• A Ripple Song - poem
• The King's Ankus - shortstory
• The Song of the Little Hunter - poem
• Quiquern - shortstory
• 'Angutivaun Taina' - poem
• Red Dog - shortstory
• Chil's Song - poem
• The Spring Running - shortstory
• The Outsong - poem

The Jungle Book (1894) is a collection of stories by English author Rudyard Kipling. The stories were first published in magazines in 1893-94. The original publications contain illustrations, some by the author's father, John Lockwood Kipling. Kipling was born in India and spent the first six years of his childhood there. After about ten years in England, he went back to India and worked there for about six-and-a-half years. These stories were written when Kipling lived in Vermont, United States. There is evidence that it was written for his daughter Josephine, who died in 1899 aged six, after a rare first edition of the book with a poignant handwritten note by the author to his young daughter was discovered at the National Trust's Wimpole Hall in Cambridgeshire in 2010.

The tales in the book (as well as 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. The verses of The Law of the Jungle, for example, lay down rules for the safety of individuals, families, and communities. 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.[4] The best-known of them are the three stories revolving around the adventures of Mowgli, an abandoned "man cub" who is raised by wolves in the Indian jungle. The most famous of the other four stories are probably "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi", the story of a heroic mongoose, and "Toomai of the Elephants", the tale of a young elephant-handler. As with much of Kipling's work, each of the stories is followed by a piece of verse.

The Jungle Book came to be used as a motivational book by the Cub Scouts, a junior element of the Scouting movement. This use of the book's universe was approved by Kipling at the request 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. 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.

Table of Contents:

• Mowgli's Brothers - shortstory
• Hunting-Song of the Seeonee Pack - poem
• Kaa's Hunting - shortstory
• Road-Song of the Bandar-Log - poem
• 'Tiger! Tiger!' - shortstory
• Mowgli's Song - poem
• The White Seal - shortstory
• Lukannon - poem
• Rikki-Tikki-Tavi - shortstory
• Darzee's Chaunt - poem
• Toomai of the Elephants - shortstory
• Shiv and the Grasshopper - poem
• Her Majesty's Servants - shortstory
• Parade-Song of the Camp Animals - poem

Mowgli, the man-cub who is raised by a wolf-pack, is the main character in The Second Jungle Book which contains some of the most thrilling of the Mowgli stories. It includes "Red Dog", in which Mowgli and the python Kaa form an unlikely alliance, "How Fear Came" and "Letting in the Jungle" as well as "The Spring Running", which brings Mowgli to manhood and the realisation that he must leave Bagheera, Baloo, and his other friends for the world of man.

Between each of these marvellously powerful stories Kipling includes some of his most stirring ballads and songs, notably "Mowgli's Song Against People" and "The Law of the Jungle".

Table of Contents:

• How Fear Came - shortstory
• The Law of the Jungle - poem
• The Miracle of Purun Bhagat - shortstory
• A Song for Kabir - poem
• Letting In the Jungle - shortstory
• Mowgli's Song Against People - poem
• The Undertakers - shortstory
• A Ripple Song - poem
• The King's Ankus - shortstory
• The Song of the Little Hunter - poem
• Quiquern - shortstory
• 'Angutivaun Taina' - poem
• Red Dog - shortstory
• Chil's Song - poem
• The Spring Running - shortstory
• The Outsong - poem