All the Mowgli Stories Co., containing colour plates and pen illustrations by Stuart Tresilian. Its contents are virtually identical to "The Works of Rudyard Kipling Volume VII: The Jungle Book", part of a multi-volume set which had appeared in 1907. (A companion volume, "The Works of Rudyard Kipling Volume VIII: The Jungle Book" collects all of the non-Mowgli stories from the two "Jungle Books".) All the Mowgli Stories All the Mowgli Stories is a collection of short stories by Rudyard Kipling. As the title suggests, the book is a chronological compilation of the stories about Mowgli from "The Jungle Book" and "The Second Jungle
The Jungle Book junior scout "Wolf Cubs" on the stories, and that Kipling admired the movement. Ricketts wrote that Kipling was obsessed by rules, a theme running throughout the stories and named explicitly as "the law of the jungle". Part of this, Ricketts supposed, was Mrs Holloway's evangelicalism, suitably transformed. The rules required obedience and "knowing your place", but also provided social relationships and "freedom to move between different worlds". Sandra Kemp observed that the law may be highly codified, but that the energies are also lawless, embodying the part of human nature which is "floating, irresponsible and self-absorbed". There is a duality