SHORT CHILDREN'S STORIES : THE JUNGLE BOOK. It is a short story written by the poet Rudyard Kipling, a Mumbai-born British man, who was the first in his country to be awarded the Nobel Prize, in 1909. He also published Kim, another story that occurs in India about a child trained for espionage, (hence ssle the observation game Kim, practiced by the Boy Scouts). Mowgli is his main character, a replica of Tarzan but young, In fact, Tarzan of the monkeys is the replica of Mowli in adult, for both are able, in the jungle, to converse and send the snimales, of whom they are friends, as Baghera the leopard, Kaa the snake, Shere Kahn the tiger, Akela the wolf, Baloo the bear , Tabaki and Raksha. Some synonyms, words or similar expressions may be mowgli, the book of the jungle