★ 吳敏蘭《繪本123,用五感玩出寶寶的英語好感度》推薦書單 – 同場加映
Once elephants came in two colours: black or white. They loved all other creatures - but each set wanted to exterminate the elephants that were not the same as themselves.
Peace-loving individuals ran and hid in the deepest jungle, and battle commenced. The war-mongers all succeeded.
For a long time it seemed that there were no elephants in the world at all, not of any colour. But then the descendants of the peace-loving ones emerged from the jungle, and by now they were all grey.
從前從前,世上的大象有黑色的,也有白色的。牠們對所有動物都非常友愛,不過牠們卻互相討厭,甚至想剷除與自己膚色不同的大象。
愛好和平的大象只好逃到叢林深處躲起來,然而戰爭終究爆發了,好戰的大象成功消滅對方。
有很長一段時間,大象好像從地球絕跡了,沒有白象,也沒有黑象。然而,喜愛和平大象的後裔最後走出了叢林,所以大象就變成我們現在看到的灰色了。