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The Third Jungle Book
Baloo
The Second Jungle Book: Mowgli &amp; Baloo
Raksha (The Jungle Book)
Jungle Book (2018 film)
The Jungle Book (1994 film)
The Second Jungle Book
Rudyard Kipling
Mowgli: The New Adventures of the Jungle Book

Mowgli is a fictional character and the protagonist of Rudyard Kipling's "The Jungle Book" stories.
 He is a naked feral child from the Pench area in Seoni, India, who originally appeared in Kipling's short story "In the Rukh" (collected in "Many Inventions", 1893) and then went on to become the most prominent and memorable character in his collections "The Jungle Book" and "The Second Jungle Book" (1894–1895), which also featured stories about other characters.
The Third Jungle Book by Pamela Jekel (ISBN  , 1992), originally illustrated by Nancy Malick, is a collection of new stories about Mowgli, the feral child character, and his animal companions, created by Rudyard Kipling and featured in Kipling's "The Jungle Book" (1894) and "The Second Jungle Book" (1895).
Baloo (Hindi: भालू "Bhālū", "bear") is a main fictional character featured in Rudyard Kipling's "The Jungle Book" from 1894 and "The Second Jungle Book" from 1895.
 Baloo, a bear, is the strict teacher of the cubs of the Seeonee wolf pack.
 His most challenging pupil is the "man-cub" Mowgli.
 Baloo and Bagheera, a panther, save Mowgli from Shere Khan the tiger and endeavor to teach Mowgli the Law of the Jungle in many of "The Jungle Book" stories.
The Second Jungle Book: Mowgli & Baloo is a 1997 American adventure film starring Jamie Williams as Mowgli, with Roddy McDowall and Billy Campbell in supporting roles.
 It is a live action adaptation of Rudyard Kipling's "The Jungle Book" (not based on "The Second Jungle Book", as its title would suggest).
 The film was adapted for the screen by Bayard Johnson and Matthew Horton.
Raksha (Hindi: रक्षा / "Rakṣā" or Mother Wolf as initially named) is a fictional character featured in Rudyard Kipling's Mowgli stories, collected in "The Jungle Book" and "The Second Jungle Book".
 She is a female Indian wolf, member of the Seeonee pack, who while suckling her own cubs decides also to adopt a human "cub" that her mate Father Wolf has found wandering in the jungle, naming him "Mowgli" (which means "frog" in the Speech of the Jungle) because of his hairlessness.
Jungle Book (formerly known as Jungle Book: Origins) is an upcoming live-action adventure fantasy film directed by Andy Serkis and written by Callie Kloves, based on "The Jungle Book" by Rudyard Kipling.
 The film stars Rohan Chand, Matthew Rhys and Freida Pinto, with motion capture performances from Tom Hollander, Christian Bale, and Benedict Cumberbatch.
Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book is a 1994 live-action American adventure film co-written and directed by Stephen Sommers, produced by Edward S. Feldman and Raju Patel, from a story by Ronald Yanover and Mark Geldman.
 It is the second film adaptation by The Walt Disney Company of the Mowgli stories from "The Jungle Book" and "The Second Jungle Book" by Rudyard Kipling.
The Second Jungle Book is a sequel to "The Jungle Book" by Rudyard Kipling.
 First published in 1895, it features five stories about Mowgli and three unrelated stories, all but one set in India, most of which Kipling wrote while living in Vermont.
 All of the stories were previously published in magazines in 1894-5, often under different titles.
 The original book is now worth $3.4 million.
 The 1994 film "The Jungle Book" used this book as a source.
Joseph Rudyard Kipling ( ; 30 December 1865 – 18 January 1936) was an English journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist.
Mowgli: The New Adventures of the Jungle Book is an American live action television series based on the Mowgli stories from the Rudyard Kipling novels, "The Jungle Book" and "The Second Jungle Book".
 A contemporary adaptation, the series has Mowgli joined on his adventures by a young American girl named, Nahbiri, who has accompanied her widowed doctor father to Jabalpur, India.
 The show was created by Timothy Scott Bogart, Guy Toubes, and James Hereth and produced by Wolfcrest Entertainment and Franklin/Waterman Worldwide, and distributed internationally by Alliance Entertainment.
 It premiered on the Fox Kids Network in the United States on February 7, 1998 and ran until March 21, 1998.