What is the title of Rudyard Kipling’s 1895 follow-up to The Jungle Book?

Rudyard Kipling’s 1895 follow-up to The Jungle Book is titled The Second Jungle Book.

The collection was published one year after The Jungle Book, which appeared in 1894. It combines additional Mowgli stories with tales about other animals and people, continuing Kipling’s imaginative exploration of the Indian jungle.

The book includes “The Red Dog,” “The King’s Ankus,” and “The Spring Running,” all of which return to Mowgli’s world. It also contains “The Miracle of Purun Bhagat,” a story centered on a former government official who becomes a holy man.

A common mix-up is treating The Second Jungle Book as a modern sequel created for film. It is Kipling’s original literary collection and predates Disney’s adaptations by many decades.