The Jungle Book Wimpole Hall in Cambridgeshire, England, in 2010. The tales in the book (as well as those in "The Second Jungle Book", which followed in 1895 and includes five further stories about Mowgli) are fables, using animals in an anthropomorphic manner to teach moral lessons. The verses of "The Law of the Jungle", for example, lay down rules for the safety of individuals, families, and communities. Kipling put in them nearly everything he knew or "heard or dreamed about the Indian jungle". Other readers have interpreted the work as allegories of the politics and society of the time. In a letter
The Jungle Book and Scouting friend Rudyard Kipling for the use of his "Jungle Book" history and universe as a motivational frame in cub scouting. Baden-Powell wrote a new book, "The Wolf Cub's Handbook", for junior members. In 1917, junior members became known as Wolf Cubs. In the 1960s and later, the "Wolf Cub" section departed in many organizations from the jungle theme. Some changed their name to Cub Scout or something similar but retained the Jungle Stories and Cub ceremony as tradition—such as the use of Jungle Books names (as described below); and the Grand Howl which signals the start and end of the