Rudyard Kipling

dropdown Rudyard Kipling was born in Bombay in India in 1865. The Indian city of Bombay is now called Mumbai. He was born near the end of 1865, on the 30th of December. He lived in India for the first six years of his life. Then his parents sent him to England. He didn’t like England because it was cold and dark. Rudyard dreamed of going back to India. dropdown Rudyard finished his school and travelled back to India when he was 17 years old. He found a job as a reporter working for English language newspapers in India. Rudyard wrote newspaper reports about things which happened in India but he wanted to write stories and poems. He finished his first book of poems, Departmental Ditties, in 1886 when he was 21 years old. dropdown He started to write short stories for the newspaper and soon his stories were very popular. Lots of people liked to read his stories and Rudyard Kipling became famous in India. A lot of his stories were about the lives of soldiers and their families in India. dropdown Rudyard Kipling also liked to write stories for children. In 1894, he wrote The Jungle Book. The Jungle Book is a story about a boy called Mowgli. Mowgli lives in the jungle. He has no mother or father. His family are the animals in the jungle.