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 written and signed by Kipling in 1895, Kipling confesses to borrowing ideas and stories in the "Jungle Book": "I am afraid that all that code in its outlines has been manufactured to meet 'the necessities of the case': though a little of it is bodily taken from (Southern) Esquimaux rules for the division of spoils," Kipling wrote in the letter. "In fact, it is extremely possible that I have helped myself promiscuously but at present cannot remember from whose stories I have stolen." Kipling lived in India as a child, and most of the stories are evidently set there, though