The Jungle Book and The Second Jungle Book

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 Naulakha, the home he built in Dummerston, Vermont (just north of Brattleboro), in the United States. There is evidence that the collection of stories was written for his daughter Josephine, who died in 1899 at six years of age by pneumonia; 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. Contents "Mowgli's Brothers" (short story) "Hunting-Song of the Seeonee Pack" (poem) "Kaa's Hunting" (short story) "Road-Song of the Bandar-Log" (poem) "Tiger! Tiger!" (short story) "Mowgli's Song That He Sang at the Council Rock When He Danced on Shere Khan's Hide" (poem) "The White Seal" (short story) "Lukannon" (poem) "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi" (short story) "Darzee's Chaunt (Sung in Honour of Rikki-Tikki-Tavi)" (poem) "Toomai of the Elephants" (short story) "Shiv and the Grasshopper (The Song That Toomai's Mother Sang to the Baby)" (poem) "Her Majesty's Servants" (originally titled "Servants of the Queen") (short story) "Parade-Song of the Camp Animals" (poem) The Second Jungle Book is a sequel to The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling. First published in 1895, it features five stories about Mowgli and three unrelated stories, all but one set in India, most of which Kipling wrote while living in Vermont. All of the stories were previously published in magazines in 1894-5, often under different titles. The original book is now worth $3.4 million. Contents "How Fear Came" (short story) "The Law of the Jungle" (poem) "The Miracle of Purun Bhagat" (short story) "A Song of Kabir" (poem) "Letting in the Jungle" (short story) "Mowgli's Song Against People" (poem) "The Undertakers" (short story) "A Ripple Song" (poem) "The King's Ankus" (short story) "The Song of the Little Hunter" (poem) "Quiquern" (short story) "'Angutivaun Taina'" (poem) "Red Dog" (short story) "Chil's Song" (poem) "The Spring Running" (short story) "The Outsong" (poem)