Rudyard Kipling, Author, Robert Andrew Parker, Illustrator Gulliver Books $12.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-15-200456-9 Parker's paintings elegantly interpret the British Cockney soldier's eulogy to Gunga Din.

This splendid continuous fertility of English genius, this unbroken poetic expression of English character and life from Chaucer to Rudyard Kipling ... last story in the book, which made clear ...

Mr. Kipling's last work is ... may perhaps be the verdict of the ruthless boy reader who revels in the Jungle Book and Captain Courageous, and derives an unholy gratification from Stalky ...

1967's The Jungle Book was adapted from and loosely based on Rudyard Kipling's writings of the same name. The film was the final animation to be produced by Walt Disney before his death.

The ashes of Rudyard Kipling, poet and writer, were buried in Poets' Corner at noon on 23 January 1936, next to the graves of Charles Dickens and Thomas Hardy. The inscription on the stone reads: ...