The tales take on the form of fables featuring anthropomorphic animals that often contrive to convey various moral messages, ranging from the dangers of jealousy to the importance of protecting loved ones. Tragically, Josephine died at the age of six in 1899. Although unconfirmed, it is widely suspected that Kipling wrote The Jungle Book for his young daughter, Josephine, after a dedication to her was discovered in 2010 inside of a rare first edition at Wimpole Hall, Cambridgeshire. The stories were originally published in various magazines between 18, and were presented together with beautiful illustrations-some of which were undertaken by his father, John Lockwood Kipling, an accomplished illustrator, teacher, and museum curator. The time Kipling spent in India undoubtedly inspired him to write the stories contained within The Jungle Book, into which he imbued everything he had learned and imagined about the jungles in the country of his birth. He stayed in England until he was sixteen, then returned to India where he remained for a further six and a half years. Kipling was born in India and lived in the country until the age of six, at which time he relocated with his family to England. The Jungle Bookis a collection of short stories written by the seminal English author Rudyard Kipling. Origins of Fairy Tales from Around the World.
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