Rikki-Tikki-Tavi | What Do I Read Next?

The Jungle Books, published in two volumes in 1894 and 1895, Kipling’s most famous and endearing work, is a collection of stories for children set in the jungles of India and featuring animals as their main characters. The most famous are the stories featuring the character of Mowgli, a boy raised by wolves in the jungle. ‘‘Rikki-Tikki-Tavi’’ appears in the second volume.

Puck of Pook’s Hill (1906) is one of Kipling’s lesser-known children’s novels. Like the Jungle Books it features a fantasy world in which Puck the fairy of Shakespeare’s A...

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