Viku and the Elephant Audio Book
[With virtual voice narration]
(49 minutes listening length, published April 28, 2025)
The intimacy of reading a book to a child has achieved its milestone in this Audio Book of Viku and the Elephant, an adventure story from the jungle of India. In this story a boy, Viku, becomes a friend of a young elephant named Haatee when he saves it from a snake. Haatee communicates with only two sounds – a happy trumpet or a sad cry – but Viku understands Haatee perfectly. Their many adventures unfold quickly. In one story, ivory poachers take Viku hostage and ask him to show them where elephant tusks are hidden in the jungle. The poachers threaten to kill Haatee if Viku doesn’t help them. Although frightened, Viku and Haatee manage to outsmart the ivory poachers with an ingenious plan. Can you imagine how they did that? This gem of a story grew out of a fable the author told his own children when they were small. They would ask to hear it again and again. Now they can do that by just clicking on the Audio Book. And surely a child will quickly lose in the forests and cultures of India, the book coming so vivid to him or her.
In the words of Librarian Susan Seefeldt, “Whereas Horton, Dumbo, and Babar (lovable as they may be) are elephants one might want to befriend, one does not encounter them in their natural habitats. This heightens the vicarious experience of the reader.”
You can get the book from Audible.com or Amazon.com
