![]() ![]() The next year his father came home on leave and took Rudyard to see the great Paris Exhibition, the beginning of Kipling’s lifelong love for France. He and his sister were taken to Devonshire to spend the summer with her. In 1877 his mother came home from India and remade his world. In the story “Baa, Baa, Black Sheep,” Kipling later described the six miserable years the two children spent in this “house of desolation.” Rudyard almost ruined his eyes by reading in secret every book he could lay his hands on. ![]() They were left in the unhappy home of a retired naval officer at Southsea, where the boy was often punished by being forbidden to read. When Rudyard was about 6, he and his sister were sent to England to be educated. ![]() These stories remained in the boy’s memory. Rudyard and his younger sister, Alice, had an Indian nurse who told them wonderful tales about the jungle animals. Beyond the cities and highways of British India, where the English lived, lay strange primitive country. 30, 1865, when India was part of the British Empire. His songs, which are written in a strong marching rhythm, have the same popular style as his other writing. Millions of children have spent happy hours with Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Books and Just So Stories about the land and people of India long ago. ![]()
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