<Tr> <Th> Preceded by </Th> <Td> "In the Rukh" </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Followed by </Th> <Td> The Second Jungle Book </Td> </Tr> <P> The Jungle Book (1894) is a collection of stories by English author Rudyard Kipling . The stories are fables, using animals in an anthropomorphic manner to give moral lessons . A principal character is the boy or "man - cub" Mowgli, who is raised in the jungle by wolves . Other characters include Shere Khan the tiger and Baloo the bear . The book has been adapted many times for film and other media . </P> <P> The stories were first published in magazines in 1893--94 . The original publications contain illustrations, some by the author's father, John Lockwood Kipling . Rudyard 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 Naulakha, the home he built in Dummerston, Vermont, in the United States . There is evidence that Kipling wrote the collection of stories for his daughter Josephine, who died from pneumonia in 1899, aged 6; a rare first edition of the book with a handwritten note by the author to his young daughter was discovered at the National Trust's Wimpole Hall in Cambridgeshire, England, in 2010 . </P>

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