The Jungle Book - Collector's EditionCollector's Edition of The Jungle Book, a hardcover book written by Rudyard Kipling, published by Wordsworth Classics. The Jungle Book introduces Mowgli, the human foundling adopted by a family of wolves. It tells of the enmity between him and the tiger Shere Khan, who killed Mowgli's parents, and of the friendship between the man cub and Bagheera, the black panther, and Baloo, the sleepy brown bear, who instructs Mowgli in the Laws of the Jungle.