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Jungle Book, The
     
Jungle Book, The
a book of stories by Rudyard Kipling about a young boy called Mowgli who grows up in the jungle in India and is cared for by animals, such as Baloo the bear and Bagheera the panther. It was made into a very popular cartoon film by Walt Disney in 1967.
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