How the Whale Got His Throat

Written by Rudyard Kipling

Narrated by Cathy Dobson

Kipling’s classic tale taken from the Just So Stories. The whale likes to eat anything and everything in the sea, but when he attempts to swallow a shipwrecked mariner he finds himself outwitted. The mariner not only tricks the whale into giving him a free ride home, he also ensures that never again can he swallow anything larger than tiny plankton.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Red Door Consulting
• Release date: Feb 25, 2011
• ISBN: 9781467667852

Rudyard Kipling

Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) was an English author and poet who began writing in India and shortly found his work celebrated in England. An extravagantly popular, but critically polarizing, figure even in his own lifetime, the author wrote several books for adults and children that have become classics, Kim, The Jungle Book, Just So Stories, Captains Courageous and others. Although taken to task by some critics for his frequently imperialistic stance, the author’s best work rises above his era’s politics. Kipling refused offers of both knighthood and the position of Poet Laureate, but was the first English author to receive the Nobel prize.

Reviews for How the Whale Got His Throat

[librisissimo · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

One of our favorites from the "Just So Stories" because Dad is indeed a man of infinite resource and sagacity.