Two original watercolour illustrations for Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book, long thought lost, have been rediscovered and will be offered in Roseberys' Old Master, British & European Pictures ...

John Kipling went missing in action at the Battle of Loos, in northern France, one hundred years ago, on September 27, 1915. The eighteen-year-old lieutenant was likely the most widely searched-for ...

Rudyard Kipling’s creations in verse and prose are among the most familiar in the English language. It would be difficult to shield a child in any Anglophone country from Mowgli’s exploits among the ...

After his only son was killed in action, grief-stricken Rudyard Kipling created poetic epitaphs for soldiers lost in the horrific battles of World War I. During World War I, more than 880,000 men ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The author of one of the best-known children's books of all time had a house in Vermont that's open for tours this month. British ...

One of the great joys of life, as many parents can attest, is reading to one’s children. Entered upon with imaginative openness and sensitivity, and provided the book is good, this shared experience ...

Kipling scholars are celebrating the publication of lost poems by the author whose exhortations in "If" to "keep your head when all about you / Are losing theirs and blaming it on you" are regularly ...

One hundred and thirty years ago, Rudyard Kipling left Vermont for the last time. He and his young family had lived here for ...

STUDENTS at Manchester University have painted over a wall mural of Rudyard Kipling’s poem “If”, replacing it with “Still I Rise” by Maya Angelou. The incident took place in the University’s Student ...

Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) was born in Bombay, but educated in England at the United Services College, Westward Ho, Bideford. In 1882 he returned to India, where he worked for Anglo-Indian newspapers ...

It is no use pretending that Kipling’s view of life, as a whole, can be accepted or even forgiven by any civilized person. —George Orwell, 1942 My childhood home did not boast many literary ...