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The Adventures of Mowgli is a collection of stories from Rudyard Kipling’s Jungle Books. This edition is illustrated and features an introduction by Ruskin Bond. Summary of the Book Mowgli is a young boy, quite like any other. He grew up with a loving family, he has friends who respect him, and he has a home of his own. However, his family is a wolfpack, his friends are Bagheera, the Panther and Baloo, the bear. Mowgli has grown up in the jungle, brought up by the wolves who found him as an infant, abandoned there. He spends his time keeping away from the dangerous Kaa, the python, and the evil Shere Khan, the tiger who considers himself lord of the jungle. This edition brings together Rudyard Kipling’s best-loved stories for kids of all ages and for a new generation. About Rudyard Kipling Joseph Rudyard Kipling was an English short-story writer, novelist and poet. He is also remembered as the author of Just So Stories and Kim. One of the most popular writers of his generation, Kipling was considered several times for Knighthood which he refused. In 1907 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature and he is its youngest recipient till date.