Step 1 : Introduction to the question "3. Our first bear is the care free, fun loving friend of a young 'man child' whom he teaches the Law of the Jungle. Which literary bear is this?"
...1. Shardik 2. Old Bear 3. Beorn 4. Baloo Baloo was created by Rudyard Kipling in a series of stories that were first published in magazines in 1893-94 before becoming the books "The Jungle Book" and "The Second Jungle Book". Baloo, a sloth bear, and Bagheera, a black panther, save the man child Mowgli from the tiger Shere Khan. They then teach Mowgli the Law of the Jungle. Kipling used the stories as morality tales to teach moral lessons. Question provided by tazman6619.
