Full disclosure: When I was growing up, “The Jungle Book” was my jam. And as an adult, “forget about your worries and your strife” — the simplest of the “Bare Necessities” lines — is a guiding mantra.

Disney’s animated classic, The Jungle Book, was released in 1967. In it, a little boy named Mowgli gets left behind and brought up in the jungle by a pack of wolves. Ultimately, he ends up in an ...

This jubilant adventure begins when Mowgli, a little boy raised by wolves, is urged by his friend Bagheera, a wise old panther, to seek safety in the man-village. Feeling very much at home in the ...