Akela, the head wolf in The Jungle Book, has become a senior figure in the movement, the name being traditionally adopted by the leader of each Cub Scout pack. The Jungle Book, because of its moral tone, came to be used as a motivational book by the Cub Scouts, a junior element of the Scouting movement. As with much of Kipling's work, each of the stories is preceded by a piece of verse, and succeeded by another. The most famous of the other stories are probably "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi", the story of a heroic mongoose, and "Toomai of the Elephants", the tale of a young elephant-handler. The best-known of them are the three stories revolving around the adventures of an abandoned "man cub" Mowgli who is raised by wolves in the Indian jungle. Kipling put in them nearly everything he knew or "heard or dreamed about the Indian jungle." Other readers have interpreted the work as allegories of the politics and society of the time. The verses of The Law of the Jungle, for example, lay down rules for the safety of individuals, families and communities. The tales in the book are fables, using animals in an anthropomorphic manner to give moral lessons. These stories were written when Kipling lived in Vermont. After about ten years in England, he went back to India and worked there for about six-and-half years. Kipling was born in India and spent the first six years of his childhood there. The original publications contain illustrations, some by Rudyard's father, John Lockwood Kipling. The stories were first published in magazines in 189394. The Jungle Book (1894) is a collection of stories by English Nobel laureate Rudyard Kipling.
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