Thank you for this post. As a child, I was never comfortable with the depiction of — well almost everyone in the Jungle Book novel and especially King Louie in the Disney movie. As an adult with more knowledge and a resulting new perspective, I have also felt the need to examine Kipling’s works more deeply. I absolutely agree that if we continue to read and show these works to children, we should also explain their context. Perhaps you could do a little more about the imperialist narrative in the movie? Overall, this was very well written!