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Illustrated classic

The Jungle Book

by Rudyard Kipling

Mowgli, Bagheera, Baloo and Shere Khan, drawn by AI from Rudyard Kipling's text. Here are six scenes from the first story, each beside the passage it shows.

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Mowgli sits cross-legged on a mossy rock under a full moon, with Baloo, Bagheera, Shere Khan, Kaa and a mongoose around him in the jungle.
  1. Father Wolf stretches and yawns at the mouth of a moonlit cave while Mother Wolf lies with her four cubs.

    Chapter 1 · Mowgli’s Brothers

    It was seven o’clock of a very warm evening in the Seeonee hills when Father Wolf woke up from his day’s rest, scratched himself, yawned, and spread out his paws one after the other to get rid of the sleepy feeling in their tips. Mother Wolf lay with her big gray nose dropped across her four tumbling, squealing cubs, and the moon shone into the mouth of the cave where they all lived. “Augrh!” said Father Wolf. “It is time to hunt again.” He was going to spring down hill when a little shadow with a bushy tail crossed the threshold and whined: “Good luck go with you, O Chief of the Wolves. And good luck and strong white teeth go with noble children that they may never forget the hungry in this world.”
  2. A laughing baby in a yellow cloth holds a branch and looks up at Father Wolf, who has stopped in mid-leap.

    Chapter 1 · Mowgli’s Brothers

    Directly in front of him, holding on by a low branch, stood a naked brown baby who could just walk--as soft and as dimpled a little atom as ever came to a wolf’s cave at night. He looked up into Father Wolf’s face, and laughed.
  3. Shere Khan roars in the cave mouth while Father and Mother Wolf stand between the tiger and their cubs.

    Chapter 1 · Mowgli’s Brothers

    The tiger’s roar filled the cave with thunder. Mother Wolf shook herself clear of the cubs and sprang forward, her eyes, like two green moons in the darkness, facing the blazing eyes of Shere Khan.
  4. Baby Mowgli plays with pebbles on the Council Rock, ringed by wolves under the moon while Akela watches from above.

    Chapter 1 · Mowgli’s Brothers

    At last--and Mother Wolf’s neck bristles lifted as the time came--Father Wolf pushed “Mowgli the Frog,” as they called him, into the center, where he sat laughing and playing with some pebbles that glistened in the moonlight.
  5. Grown Mowgli kneels beside Bagheera and feels the little bald spot under the panther's chin.

    Chapter 1 · Mowgli’s Brothers

    Mowgli put up his strong brown hand, and just under Bagheera’s silky chin, where the giant rolling muscles were all hid by the glossy hair, he came upon a little bald spot.
  6. Mowgli whirls a burning branch above his head on the Council Rock as the wolves cower below.

    Chapter 1 · Mowgli’s Brothers

    Mowgli thrust his dead branch into the fire till the twigs lit and crackled, and whirled it above his head among the cowering wolves.