Thumbnails- Rikki Tikki Tavi/Kotick the Seal 

I am nearing the end f The Jungle Book. it has been a great read! Its a lot more mature than I thought. lots of violence.

Anyway, there are short stories at the end which I didn't even know existed.
Rikki Tikki is the short story of a mongoose that befriends some humans and lives in their house, but then he discovers there is a snake couple that pose a threat to the people, they want to kills the humans. The two cobras named Nag and Nagaina, are spectacled cobras. Rikki Tikki defends his humans and wins their favour.

Kotick the Seal is a short story about a rare white northern fur seal who witnesses the clubbing of all his friends as a young pup and makes it his life's mission to find a place on earth where man has not set foot and therefore poses no danger to his population. He eventually succeeds and brings the news to his tribe that he has found sanctuary. No one believes him so he goes on a mad rampage where he brutally attacks all the other male seals who disagree with him. They eventually agree to go with him. Crazy right? this is a children's book


I think that these stories are great to include because they are not very well known and would be good to promote. Also, they reflect really well the sense that I have been getting abut this book that nowadays, it is more mature than a children's book, and should be geared toward teens and adults.
I want to make illustrations that reflect that, so I think by drawing these I can show this darker side to the Jungle Book. Below are some examples.

Ive drawn mainly the fighting scenes, which to be honest, constitute most of the short stories.