Left alone in the Indian jungle as an infant, Mowgli is adopted by a wolf pack and raised under the Law of the Jungle — a code of survival taught to him by Baloo the bear and Bagheera the panther, and challenged at every turn by Shere Khan, the tiger who has never accepted a human cub living free among the animals. Kipling's jungle isn't a fantasy playground; it's a working society with real rules, real stakes, and a boy who has to decide which world he actually belongs to.One of the most adapted stories in the English language, and the original source for the animal-education classic that shaped a century of adventure fiction for young readers.