“The Jungle Book” is a collection of stories written by Rudyard Kipling. He had accrued much knowledge about the jungles in India through listening to others and using research. All of the stories were published in magazines in 1893-1894. The original publications contained illustrations, some by Rudyard's father, John Lockwood Kipling. These books were written when Kipling lived in Vermont. The tales in the book are fables, using animals in an anthropomorphic manner to give moral lessons. Other readers have interpreted the work as allegories of the politics and society of the time.