All the Mowgli Stories facts for kids

First US edition, Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1936, cover by Kurt Wiese.

All the Mowgli Stories is a cool collection of short stories by Rudyard Kipling. It brings together all the exciting adventures of Mowgli, a boy raised by wolves in the jungle. The book includes stories from The Jungle Book and The Second Jungle Book. It also has "In the Rukh", which was the first Mowgli story ever written.

This book also features special poems that go with each story. All these stories and poems were first published between 1893 and 1895.

The book was first published under this title in 1933. It was released by Macmillan and Co.. The book included colorful pictures and drawings by Stuart Tresilian.

What's Inside?

This book is packed with all of Mowgli's adventures in the order they happened.

Short Stories

• Mowgli's Brothers
• Kaa's Hunting
• How Fear Came - During a very dry time, Mowgli and the animals gather at the Wainganga River. They have a "Water Truce" where no one hunts near the river. A special blue "Peace Rock" helps keep the peace. After Shere Khan tries to break the truce, Hathi the elephant tells Mowgli a story. He explains how the first tiger got its stripes when fear first came to the jungle.
• Tiger! Tiger!
• Letting in the Jungle
• The King's Ankus - Mowgli finds a shiny, jeweled object in an old, hidden place. He doesn't think it's important and leaves it carelessly. Later, he learns that people will even kill each other to own such a treasure. Mowgli then puts the treasure back where he found it to stop more fighting.
• Red Dog
• The Spring Running - Mowgli is almost 17 years old now. He feels restless and doesn't know why. While running through the jungle, he finds the village where his adopted human mother, Messua, lives. She now has a young son. Mowgli feels torn between staying with his human family and going back to the jungle.
• In the Rukh

Poems

• Hunting-Song of the Seeonee Pack
• Road-Song of the Bandar-Log (poem)
• The Law of the Jungle (poem)
• Mowgli's Song (that he sang at the Council Rock when he danced on Shere Khan's hide)
• Mowgli's Song Against People (poem)
• The Out-Song (poem)