The Jungle Book: Mowgli's Brothers
Classical Stories · No. 92 — The boy raised by wolves, and the law that protects him.
- Classical Stories
- 43 min
- Ages 15–99
- 6 chapters
About this audiobook
One evening a human toddler wanders into the cave of Father and Mother Wolf, just as the lame, man-hating tiger Shere Khan comes hunting him. Mother Wolf defies the tiger and the pack takes the 'man-cub' in, naming him Mowgli. He is raised as a wolf, and taught the Law of the Jungle by Baloo the bear and protected by Bagheera the black panther, who buys his life into the pack with a fresh-killed bull. Mowgli grows up beloved by the jungle but never fully of it, always shadowed by Shere Khan's grudge and by the pack's slow doubt about whether a man can truly run with wolves. When the old wolf leader weakens and the pack turns, Mowgli must use the one thing the jungle fears — the Red Flower, fire — to face down the tiger, and comes to understand that he stands between the world of beasts and the world of people, fully at home in neither.
Why it's worth a listen
A human baby toddles into a wolf den one night, and instead of being eaten is adopted into the pack and raised as a wolf cub — taught the Law of the Jungle by a wise bear and a black panther, and hunted all the while by the tiger who wanted him first. From Kipling's classic, the story of Mowgli, the boy who belongs to the jungle and to people both, and to neither quite completely.
A question to keep
Where do you truly belong when you are raised between two worlds — and who gets to decide?
Chapters
- The Shadow at the Cave Mouth
- The Price of a Life
- The Law of the Woods
- The Whispering Grass
- The Red Flower
- A Question to Keep