The Jungle Book (1967 film) the Sherman Brothers and one by Gilkyson, "The Bare Necessities". The film initially became Disney's second highest-grossing animated film in the United States and Canada, and was also successful during its re-releases. The film was also successful throughout the world, becoming Germany's highest-grossing film by number of admissions. Disney released a live-action remake in 1994 and an animated sequel, "The Jungle Book 2", in 2003; another live-action adaptation directed by Jon Favreau was released in 2016. Mowgli, a young orphan boy, is found in a basket in the deep jungles of India by Bagheera, a black panther who promptly takes
The Third Jungle Book write. The Third Jungle Book The Third Jungle Book by Pamela Jekel (, 1992), originally illustrated by Nancy Malick, is a collection of new stories about Mowgli, the feral child character, and his animal companions, created by Rudyard Kipling and featured in Kipling's "The Jungle Book" (1894) and "The Second Jungle Book" (1895). The stories are written in an accurate pastiche of Kipling's style, although Jekel sometimes allows a modern American phrase to slip through. Jekel's plotting also frequently includes references to animal behaviour and anatomy that were not a feature of Kipling's original stories. Chronologically the stories begin some