Who Named the Animals?

But not everyone expresses his opinion. Uncle Nahum is like a calculator and studies his kinfolk from the dark corner. He's silent. Grandfather Settle just dozes and makes rasping, rattling, buzzing noises. Finally, Fred Chappell captures characters like a photographer in Family Gathering. This book is honest and humorous. It may remind you of similar relatives and will bring belly laughs. —Brenda Ledford Who Named the Animals? If, indeed, Adam was the one, who helped him decide when several names came to him? Eve, the first feminist, his wife, the mother of his children, must have had a hand in this. How could he know which was best? Lion or tiger, chickadee or swan... sheep or muskox, sardine or snapper... mouse, or should it be titmouse? It was all so confusing. . . Yes, the choices were staggering and he must have grown weary; she wiped his forehead, made soup— those things women do well— whispering suggestions into his trance. The naming of flowers he left to her, glad to be freed of such a task. —Judy Klare 95 ...