Two original watercolors for The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling – Credit: Roseberys / SWNS Two original illustrations for Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book that were lost for over a century have been discovered. The watercolors had been hanging unrecognized on the walls of a London family home for decades. The rediscovery increases the number … Read more
Langton Hughes, whose book Not Without Laughter, entered the public domain on Jan 1st 2026 January 1st isn’t just New Years Day; there’s another little holiday wrapped up inside. It’s Public Domain Day: the moment when a year’s worth of literature, music, film, television, pop culture, poetry, and science enters the public domain and becomes … Read more
You won’t find a more literate bunch of 4th graders anywhere in the nation than if you go and stand in a Mississippi elementary school. Over the last few years, the Magnolia state has risen from 49th in the country for 4th grade reading level to number 1 in both reading and math at the … Read more
Stacks of Timbuktu manuscripts at the Ahmed Baba Institute – credit, UNESCO Bureau of Mali, CC 4.0. INT Thousands of ancient Arabic texts have returned to their rightful place in the legendary Saharan trade city of Timbuktu after years of safe-keeping further south. Having undergone extensive digitization, fear that the content of the manuscripts may … Read more