The stories revolve around the adventures of an abandoned ?man cub? Mowgli. When he was a baby a bad tiger Shere Khan caught him and took him into the jungle. All animals in the jungle are afraid of Shere Khan. He is a man-eater and he would also have liked to eat Mowgli. But Mowgli is able to escape. A wolf family helps him and takes care of him. He learns to live in the jungle. Mother wolf always tells him that he should kill Shere Khan, the tiger. Mowgli?s best friends are Baloo, the sleepy bear, and Bagherra, the black panther. They help him in every situation. But the time comes, when Mowgli should go away, because Shere Khan is likely to come back to kill him. So he goes to a village to learn the people?s language and their life style. But Shere Khan goes to the village, too. A wolf tells Mowgli this and he makes a plan to kill the terrible tiger....