Sleep story
The Jungle Book
Tonight's sleep story drifts into the moonlit jungle with Mowgli, the man cub raised by wolves. Found alone and carried home in Father Wolf's gentle jaws, the child is claimed by Mother Wolf, Raksha, and named the little frog. When the lame tiger Shere Khan comes demanding him, Raksha stands the tiger down, and the wolf pack accepts Mowgli at the Council Rock, where Baloo the bear and Bagheera the black panther speak for him. Mowgli grows up learning the Law of the Jungle and the Master Words, swimming with otters, gathering honey with the bees, and sleeping in a warm heap of wolf brothers. He keeps the Water Truce beside even Shere Khan, and witnesses the elephants' secret moonlit dance. But when old Akela misses his kill, Mowgli must carry the Red Flower, the flame no beast can face, to the Council Rock, and bid his wolf family farewell.
"The Jungle Book" (1894) by Rudyard Kipling. Public domain in the USA (verified on gutenberg.org/ebooks/236).