Way Back Then

It is time to sleep but Kudlu’s children, who live in an igloo, can’t sleep and ask their dad to tell them a story. Not just a story, but a story of a long long time before, way before anyone they know was even born, so Kudlu starts telling stories. They are very interesting and very weird, so different from the stories I usually hear from other books like the one of when a magic fox asked for it to be dark all the time, so that it could hide, and the raven asked to be light all the time, so that it could see and find food. And since the two animals could never agree, now we have both day and night. Or the one when the animals could take their skin off like clothing, and they were humans inside. But a goose, who had become human, started missing her flying, so it put back her wings and flew away.

My favorite is the one when igloos were magical and could fly at night, bringing you wherever you wanted to go. I also liked the one of the polar bears that were so big that you could mistake them for icebergs when they were floating in the sea.