Have you ever wondered why animals are the way they are? Well, long ago, whales could eat anything - and they did. Well in today’s story this whale opens his enormous mouth wider and wider and swallows a man and his raft. I wonder what will happen. Let’s experience the magic of reading, as I read, “How the Whale Got his Throat” by Rudyard Kipling, retold by Anna Milbourne and illustrated by John Joven.