Audiobooks, as I’ve written before, are a godsend for long car rides, boring days, or house-cleaning sessions. (Or if, like me, you have large wedding afghans to crochet and don’t feel like watching a movie.) And it was through one such audiobook, narrated by the golden-voiced Jim Weiss, that I was introduced to Rudyard Kipling’s Just So Stories.
Depending on which collection you find, there are around a dozen of these tales, each detailing how some facts of nature became facts. Unlike many of us, Kipling doesn’t take it for granted that the elephant has a trunk. With child-like persistence, he puts forward his views on phenomena ranging from the formation of the alphabet to the genesis of the whale’s throat.
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