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 Midsummer Night's Dream appears to children who are performing the play and leads them on adventures.

Just-So Stories (1902) is another collection of children's stories by Rudyard Kipling. This series of stories draws on the folklore of India to explain in a fanciful manner the origins of different animals. Some stories include "How...