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A special edition with a colouring-in cover from the colouring book sensation Johanna Basford, creator of the worldwide bestsellers Lost Ocean, Enchanted Forest and Secret Garden
Rudyard Kipling was born in Bombay in India in1865 to British
parents, and brought by a Portuguese 'ayah' (nanny) and an Indian
servant, who would entertain him with fabulous stories and Indian
nursery rhymes. He was sent back to England when he was seven years
old, and lived in a boarding house with a couple who were cruelly
strict. Fortunately he returned to India aged 16, to work as the
assistant editor of a newspaper in Lahore. He began publishing
stories and poems and eventually had great success with his book
Plain Tales from the Hills. After his marriage Kipling settled in
America, and it was here that he wrote The Jungle Book. He then
moved with his family to England, where he wrote Just So Stories
for his daughter Josephine who tragically died of pneumonia.
Rudyard Kipling was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907
and died on 18 January 1936.
Johanna Basford Is an illustrator and ink evangelist who prefers
pens and pencils to pixels. Her intricate, hand-drawn illustrations
are loved the world over by those who have coloured in (sometimes
more than once) her previous bestselling books, Secret Garden and
Enchanted Forest. Johanna Is a graduate of Duncan of Jordanstone
College of Art and Design in Dundee. She likes sugar mice, floral
teacups, peonies and bumblebees. johannabasford.com
The colourist have a queen and her name is Johanna Basford
*New York Magazine*
The Jungle Book was one of those rare books that I felt I was
actually living as I read it
*Michael Morpurgo*
Loved by children and adults alike
*Daily Mail*
The Just So Stories and The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling have
always held a fascination for me
*HRH Prince of Wales*
Rudyard Kipling laid the foundations of modern children's
literature with works such as The Jungle Book... wild, magnificent
stories that felt as though they'd always existed, stories people
might have told each other in the caves
*Daily Telegraph*
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