"Mowgli a little boy collected and raised by a family of wolves who has to face a terrible tiger Kotick a white seal who wants to save his fellow men from the barbarity of men Rikki-tikki-tavi a mongoose who fights heroically against a cobra or Toomai a trainer who attends the incredible spectacle of the elephant ball in the depths of the Indian jungle ... these are the heroes of the most famous work of Rudyard Kipling."