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TCTV's Story Chest Rikki Tikki Tavi - Part Three
New ReviewRikki faces Nagaina for the final time to save Teddy, his family and the garden from the evil cobras.
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TCTV's Story Chest Rikki Tikki Tavi - Part Two
New ReviewRikki meets Chuchundra the muskrat, saves Teddy's family from Nag and finds the cobras' eggs.
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TCTV's Story Chest Rikki Tikki Tavi - Part One
New ReviewRikki Tikki Tavi is found by Teddy and his family. He learns to live with the humans, and finds out about the evil cobras Nag and Nagaina.
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TCTV's Story Chest Just So Stories - How The Camel Got Its Hump
New ReviewHow the lazy camel angered a Genie and got its hump.
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TCTV's Story Chest Just So Stories - How The Rhinoceros Got Its Skin
New ReviewKipling's story about how the bad tempered Rhino got its skin that looks far too big for it.
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TCTV's Story Chest Just So Stories - The Elephant's Child
New ReviewThe tale of the curious Elephant's Child and how it got the trunk all elephants have today.
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TCTV's Story Chest Just So Stories - How The Whale Got Its Throat
New ReviewKipling's story explaining why the giant whale only eats the smallest fish in the ocean.
Weird History
The True Story Behind The Jungle Book
Many believe that Dina Sanichar, the Indian wolf boy, was the inspiration behind Rudyard Kipling's famous work, The Jungle Book. Just like Mowgli, Dina was a feral boy raised by wolves, although his life was quite different from his...
Oxford Comma
The Inspirational Power of a Minute: Kipling's "If-"
Welcome to a summary, reading, and analysis of the inspiring Victorian/Edwardian poem "If-." In "If-" Rudyard Kipling (who also authored such classics as The Jungle Book). One of the most well known poems of all time, "If-" teaches a...
Bizarre Beasts
How One Spider Became (Mostly) Vegetarian
Bagheera kiplingi has a most un-spider-like adaptation: a taste for plants.
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Rudyard Kipling: A Man of Letters (2021)
National Archives: In this short film Dr Juliette Desplat, Head of Modern Collections at The National Archives, and Janet Montefiore, Professor Emerita from the University of Kent, tell the sad story of the loss of Rudyard Kipling’s only...