Re-illustrating The Jungle Book: a paper Shere Khan by Kevin Waldron
Each day, artists illustrate a scene from Rudyard Kipling’s classic The Jungle Book. Here Kevin Waldron has made the fearsome Shere Khan from hand-torn paper, depicting the scene where he lies in wait...
View ArticleRe-illustrating The Jungle Book: animal landscape by Ian Andrew
Each day, artists illustrate a scene from Rudyard Kipling’s classic The Jungle Book. Here Ian Andrew took inspiration from the landscape in his native Dorset and hid the characters in the rocky...
View ArticleRe-illustrating The Jungle Book: Mother Wolf by Prabha Mallya
Each day, artists illustrate a scene from Rudyard Kipling’s classic The Jungle Book. Here Prabha Mallya depicts Raksha – also known as Mother Wolf – defending Mowgli from the fearsome Shere...
View ArticleMowgli: the heart and troubled soul of The Jungle Book
In Kipling’s stories, the superiority of man is stated with a harshness that will startle those whose only image of Mowgli comes courtesy of DisneyDisney and the director Jon Favreau have done a...
View ArticleRe-illustrating The Jungle Book: Mowgli rides Bagheera by Lesley Barnes
Each day, artists illustrate a scene from Rudyard Kipling’s classic The Jungle Book. Here Lesley Barnes depicts her favourite character, Bagheera the panther with his companion MowgliRe-illustrating...
View ArticleRe-illustrating The Jungle Book: monkey kidnapping by Sarah McIntyre and...
Each day, artists illustrate a scene from Rudyard Kipling’s classic The Jungle Book. Here Sarah McIntyre illustrates her writing partner Philip Reeve’s favourite element of the book: Mowgli’s...
View ArticleRe-illustrating The Jungle Book: a night adventure by Bill Bragg
Each day, artists illustrate a scene from Rudyard Kipling’s classic The Jungle Book. Here Bill Bragg captures the dark and wild nature of Mowgli and his animal companions, out on a moonlit...
View ArticleRe-illustrating The Jungle Book: Mowgli meeting with Bagheera by Robert G...
Each day, artists illustrate a scene from Rudyard Kipling’s classic The Jungle Book. Here Robert G Fresson depicts a quiet moment between Mowgli and Bagheera, before they vanish into the jungle’s...
View ArticleRe-illustrating The Jungle Book: jungle lessons by Marta Altés
Each day, artists illustrate a scene from Rudyard Kipling’s classic The Jungle Book. Here Marta Altés draws Mowgli telling Bagheera about his language lessons with BalooRe-illustrating The Jungle Book:...
View ArticleRe-illustrating The Jungle Book - by Chris Riddell, Bill Bragg, Sarah...
With Rudyard Kipling’s children’s classic The Jungle Book back in everyone’s minds, we approached 10 artists and illustrators to recreate their favourite scene or character from the bookCompetition:...
View ArticleRead the winning story in our Jungle Book competition for children
We received some fantastic entries to our contest for young writers inspired by the ever-popular tales. Now it is time to reveal the winner …Earlier this year, we asked our favourite illustrators and...
View ArticleThe Battle of Jutland, Jack Cornwell and a tale of wartime spin | Letters
Ian Jack (We remembered the battle of Jutland, but we are losing our awe of the sea, 4 June) forgot one great poem about the Battle of Jutland – My Boy Jack by Rudyard Kipling. This is understandable...
View ArticleTop 10 tigers in children's books
From Tyger to Tigger, Lizzy Stewart picks her top tigers in fiction, of all different shapes, sizes and stripesThe lion might be considered the King of Beasts but it’s the tiger that has always...
View ArticleJust So Stories review – Kipling's delights roar out of the broom cupboard
Stephen Joseph theatre, ScarboroughRudyard Kipling’s famous bedtime tales are brought to life with a sink plunger, vacuum cleaner and, apparently, no actorsRudyard Kipling dreamed up the fanciful...
View ArticleMr Kipling’s rubber armour for airmen: archive, 29 July 1910
29 July 1910: ‘A little protection about the head and shoulders might make all the difference between life and death’Mr. Rudyard Kipling contributes to this week’s number of “The Car” the foregoing...
View ArticlePoem of the week: Ifs by Caroline Norton
A wry, pastoral fantasy aimed at romantic types, this all-but forgotten poem irresistibly recalls one of the most famous. And arguably outdoes itOH! If the winds could whisper what they hear,When...
View ArticleJeremy Hunt's workhouse and the art of misusing a quotation
The health secretary this week clumsily invoked Oliver Twist to scold doctors wanting more funds. So we wondered what other great words politicians could mangle?Health secretary Jeremy Hunt this week...
View ArticleV&A celebrates Lockwood Kipling, an artist with a passion for Indian crafts
Exhibition reveals Victorian designer’s expertise, promotion of Punjabi arts, and lasting impact on son RudyardIf the teenage son of a Methodist preacher had not visited the Great Exhibition in 1851,...
View ArticleTop 10 books about adopted children
A profound human experience – and also a brilliant plot device – adoption has inspired endless stories, from Shakespeare to Jeanette WintersonIt’s easy to see why adoption is such a powerful source of...
View ArticleIndia, Brexit and the legacy of empire in Africa | Letters
It is disingenuous of Shashi Tharoor to pretend that religious hatred did not exist in India before “the British introduced it” with their policy of “divide and rule” (A legacy of exploitation and...
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