Mowgli: The New Adventures of the Jungle Book Mowgli: The New Adventures of the Jungle Book Mowgli: The New Adventures of the Jungle Book is an American live action television series based on the Mowgli stories from the Rudyard Kipling novels, "The Jungle Book" and "The Second Jungle Book". A contemporary adaptation, the series has Mowgli joined on his adventures by a young American girl named, Nahbiri, who has accompanied her widowed doctor father to Jabalpur, India. The show was created by Timothy Scott Bogart, Guy Toubes, and James Hereth and produced by Wolfcrest Entertainment and Franklin/Waterman Worldwide, and distributed internationally by Alliance Entertainment. It premiered on the
The Jungle Book and Scouting The Jungle Book and Scouting The Scouting program has used themes from "The Jungle Book" by Rudyard Kipling since 1916. In 1914 Robert Baden-Powell announced a Junior Section for Scouting. In 1916, he published his own outlines for such a scheme, to be called Wolf Cubbing. Baden-Powell may have had a number of reasons to call this section Wolf Cubs: Wolf was the name of the cannon made in the railway workshops at Mafeking. By analogy, a young boy not old enough to be a wolf or true Scout could be a baby wolf or Wolf Cub. Baden-Powell asked his