'The Jungle Book and Other Classics' collects three timeless adventure classics by Rudyard Kipling: 'The Jungle Book' features tales of Mowgli, the man-cub, a young boy taught the Law of the Pack by jungle animals who have raised him as one of their own; 'Rikki-Tikki-Tavi', Kipling's classic tale of a courageous mongoose who protects the human family that raised him from the sinister cobra Nagiana; 'The Second Jungle Book' features more tales of Mowgli, his jungle family and the conflicts he experiences as he outgrows the world of his native habitat; and 'Kim' is Kipling's tale of orphan Kimball O'Hara, who lis living a vagabond life on the streets of India when he is put to work by the British secret service as an agent involved in the intrigues of the Great Game, a political conflict between Great Britiain and Russia.