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Idris Elba to voice Shere Khan in Disney remake of The Jungle Book
Hackney-born actor in final talks over role in Jon Favreau's live-action/CGI take on Rudyard Kipling's 1894 fableIdris Elba is in final talks to provide the gruff yet mellifluous tones of the tiger...
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Fleet Street editors of the past were little different from those of today
"A certain amount of exaggeration is legitimate, even necessary, but exaggeration does not mean falsification."That was a quote by the editor of the Daily Express, RD Blumenfeld, at the dawn of popular...
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Andy Serkis to direct Jungle Book movie
Hobbit actor to make directorial debut on one of two duelling Rudyard Kipling adaptations• Idris Elba to voice Shere Khan in Disney remake of The Jungle BookAndy Serkis will make his directorial debut...
View ArticleMichael Morpurgo: How Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories became music to my ears
Just So Stories was the first book that Michael Morpurgo loved as a child. As a writer for children himself, he marvels at the inventiveness and ingenuity of the storiesMy copy of Just So Stories, in...
View Article50 unseen Rudyard Kipling poems discovered
Scholar unearths trove of unpublished work by poet voted Britain's favouriteKipling scholars are celebrating the publication of lost poems by the author whose exhortations in "If" to "keep your head...
View ArticleRudyard Kipling 'admitted to plagiarism in Jungle Book'
A letter by the author has surfaced in which he writes that 'it is extremely possible I have helped myself promiscuously'A letter in which Rudyard Kipling admits that "it is extremely possible that I...
View ArticleLike most writers, Kipling was a literary magpie
Kipling was no plagiarist. Creative originality takes many forms, and many forms can be remade from originalsShocked headlines have reported that a newly discovered letter by Rudyard Kipling"admits...
View ArticleDisney to make live action Jungle Book
Studio to return Rudyard Kipling's tale to big screen at same time as Warner Bros plans rival adaptationDisney is planning a live-action take on The Jungle Book, Rudyard Kipling's iconic collection of...
View ArticleMuseum of London photo collection features tragic son Kipling sent to war
A trove of 2,500 photographs taken by Christina Broom, the UK's first female press photographer, is on show at museumThe grinning young officer with the thick spectacles is called Jack, and it was...
View ArticleThe 100 best novels: No 34 Kim by Rudyard Kipling (1901)
In Kipling's classic boy's own spy story, an orphan in British India must make a choice between east and west Robert McCrum introduces the seriesKim, Kipling's extraordinarily topical masterpiece, has...
View ArticleThe rules
An etiquette guide to holding your nerveRudyard Kipling famously advised keeping your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you. This is easier said than done when everyone has...
View ArticleDisney casts 10-year-old newcomer as Mowgli in Jon Favreau's Jungle Book
Neel Sethi is to star in CGI-heavy adaptation that will also feature Ben Kingsley and Idris Elba Andy Serkis to direct rival Jungle Book movieDisney has cast a 10-year-old New Yorker as Mowgli in the...
View ArticleTiger fight: Benedict Cumberbatch's Shere Khan to battle Idris Elba's rival...
Cumberbatch is to voice the purring baddie in Serkiss version of The Jungle Book, which competes with Jon Favreaus alternate take, in which Elba plays Mowglis arch-enemyBenedict Cumberbatch will voice...
View ArticleChristian Bale and Cate Blanchett added to cast for Jungle Book: Origins
Actors will voice Bagheera and Kaa in Andy Serkis's directorial debut, alongside Naomie Harris and Benedict CumberbatchWhen Hollywood powerhouse Disney cast Bill Murray, Christopher Walken, Idris Elba...
View ArticleWeatherwatch: Kipling, the Burwash flood and his waterlogged cellar
It is October 1909 and Rudyard Kipling, Britains first author to win the Nobel prize, is writing to his son, who is away at public school. Setting pen to paper at Batemans, his home in Burwash, Sussex,...
View ArticleMairi Hedderwick’s top 10 books from her childhood in 1940s Scotland
To celebrate Book Week Scotland, the creator of Katie Morag shares the books that made their mark on her when she was growing upBeing a war baby (born in 1939) there were not many children’s books in...
View ArticleWhat are the best books on bears to read after watching Paddington the movie?
The glorious Paddington film has got us hankering for more bears in books. The Book Doctor recommends great bears in children’s fiction, from Winne-the-Pooh to Rupert!We went on a family outing to see...
View ArticleMy inspiration: Vivian French on her own father – and Rudyard Kipling
Vivian French grew up in a world full of crazy stories, limericks, inaccurate nursery rhymes and dreadful poetry thanks to her inspirational father, who also introduced her to the genius of the Just So...
View ArticleThe most intriguing first lines in Puffin classics – in pictures
From Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland to JM Barrie’s Peter Pan to LM Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables, the first lines of these Puffin classics are famous in their own right. But how many have you...
View ArticleTips, links and suggestions: what are you reading this week?
Your space to discuss the books you are reading and what you think of themRead more Tips, links and suggestions blogsWelcome to this week’s blog. Here’s a roundup of your comments and photos from last...
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