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I’m wondering if any of you have suggestions for some resources to be used for Rikki-tikki-tavi, Rudyard Kipling, India, etc. My kids have become completely enthralled with Rikki-tikki-tavi since Christmas. They've been listening to it on CD, we've read this version, we've even watched the movie (which I was prepared to hate, but it's surprisingly good--narrated by Orson Welles )
The kids are familiar with the Jungle Book, I think we'll tackle some of the Just So Stories. We have a great version of "The Tiger and The Brahmin" narrated by Ben Kingsley.
I have found this biography of Kipling, which I think will interest my oldest. I'm going to see if the library next town over has this book. This last one is about the brief time he lived in Brattleboro, VT . I had no idea he had ever lived in the States.  Although, it does makes sense since he wrote "Captains Courageous"...
I'm trying to find some good books on snakes (particularly cobras), and am wondering if I should even try to touch on colonial India. Any suggestions?
As a cute aside, I was reading the illustrated Rikki-tikki-tavi to my 5 yod and 3 yos before bed tonight. I was on the page where Rikki hears Darzee the bird singing a sad song, and wonders why. When my 3 yos saw the picture, he said (unbeknownst to me, quoting the book verbatim) "What's the matter?" "We are miserable. One of our babies fell out of the nest yesterday, and Nag ate him." I was completely stunned, to say the least!
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This is a great poetry series. We have the one on Kipling and enjoy it - Poetry for Young People - Rudyard Kipling. The first several pages are biography and then there is a nice sampling of his poems.
I would include Blessed Teresa of Calcutta as part of a look at India - particularly the Demi book.
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A Little Princess book and this movie I know they've played loose with the story itself for this version, no worse than Shirley Temple's classic take on the story though and this version breathes India to me in the beginning sequences and when she tells stories. A Secret Garden is also about a child shipped home to England from India but without the Indian stories, to me it is more about England and life on the moors.
One Grain Of Rice: A Mathematical Folktale is great.
Two Under the Indian Sun by Rumer Godden looks interesting but I've not read it. I thouroughly enjoyed her Prayers from the Ark which she translated to English for the French Benedictine nun Carmen Bernos de Gasztold, so knowing Godden stayed in a convent long enough to find this treasure and translate it, I would probably check out Under the Indian Sun the next chance I get but preview it before I gave it to dd.
Anyone know anything else about Rumer Godden of interest regarding India? What do you think - good choice or bad choice? Or does it depend on the book? She has quite a few Indian stories having grown up there, The River, (lots of "local color" in this coming of age story) and Premlata and the Festival of Lights look very interesting to me...
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MaryM wrote:
This is a great poetry series. We have the one Kipling and enjoy it - Poetry for Young People - Rudyard Kipling. The first several pages are biography and then there is a nice sampling of his poems.
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Thanks, Mary. Mother Teresa didn't even occur to me. I know my library has the Demi book--it's lovely!
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| A Little Princess book and this movie I know they've played loose with the story itself for this version, no worse than Shirley Temple's classic take on the story though and this version breathes India to me in the beginning sequences and when she tells stories. A Secret Garden is also about a child shipped home to England from India but without the Indian stories, to me it is more about England and life on the moors. |
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I've been thinking of trying "A Little Princess." Now I'm feeling really inspired! Thanks, Jennifer
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I love Kipling! Do listen to the Just So Stories on CD, read by Boris Karloff (!). They are not to be missed, no matter what version.
Maybe when the kids are a bit older, they'd enjoy E. Nesbit's take on The Jungle Books in The Wouldbegoods, where the children re-enact the JB with disastrous (and hilarious) results.
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Noreen,
Have you seen the movie version "Captains Courageous"? We recently rented it from Netflix. It's a bit slow but very wholesome & sweet.
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I just happened to be looking through "Praying With Mary" by Janice T. Connell (a quick library find) and found this -
Prayer For the Dying
O Mary, pierced with sorrow,
Remember, reach and save
The soul that goes tomorrow
Before the God that gave;
As each was born of woman,
For each in utter need,
True comrade and brave foreman,
Madonna, intercede.
Amen.
-Rudyard Kipling
There is also a note to Recite three Our Fathers, three Hail Marys, three Glory Be's in gratitiude for God's Divine Mercy after the above.
I just love finding prayers written by authors - very surprising sometimes.
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That is beautiful, Donna. Thanks for sharing. I, too, love spiritual connections like that with "known" people (artists, writers, etc.) Like I just recently found out that M.I. Hummel (you know the Hummel paintings and figurines) was a Catholic and a nun.
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