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Illustration from The Jungle Book A Bengal tiger (Panthera tigris tigris) walks across a dirt safari track in tall grass, mouth open as it calls, at Kanha Tiger Reserve in Madhya Pradesh, India. The Jungle Book Illustration from The Jungle Book
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A Mad Tea Party. Alice meets the March Hare and Mad Hatter in Lewis Carroll's "Adventures of Alice in Wonderland" (1865) by English illustrator and satirical artist Sir John Tenniel.
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The Peter Pan statue in Kensington Gardens. The statue shows the boy who would never grow up, blowing his horn on a tree stump with a fairy, London. fairy tale
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Sherlock Holmes explaining to Dr. Watson what he has deduced from the pipe left behind by a visitor (see Notes); engraving from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of the Yellow Face by Arthur Conan Doyle, The Strand Magazine, London, 1893.
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The Jungle Book: References & Edit History

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  • Gitanjali Roy
    Gitanjali Roy is deputy managing editor, Encyclopaedia Britannica. She has over two decades of editorial experience across digital and broadcast media.

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Invalidated site: Internet Archive - "The Jungle Book". Jul 24, 2026
Add new Web site: BBC Sounds - The Jungle Book - Episode 1. Mar 21, 2025
Article thoroughly revised and updated. Jan 06, 2025
Add new Web site: Academia - The Jungle Books: Rudyard Kipling's Lamarckian Fantasy (PDF). Sep 01, 2023
Add new Web site: Internet Archive - "The Jungle Book". Sep 14, 2022
Add new Web site: The Literature Network - "The Jungle Book". Jun 18, 2015
Add new Web site: The University of Adelaide - "The Jungle Book". Jun 18, 2015
Add new Web site: Buzzle.com - "The Jungle Book". Mar 15, 2012
New article added. Apr 12, 2011
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