Show notes & transcript
Why Otters Laugh at Rain
16 Oct 2026 · 27:20 · Ages all ages
On a riverbank where storms once frightened every creature, a young otter named Pebble meets unlikely teachers and discovers a way to greet the rain with courage, play, and a helping heart.
If you sit close to a fire and listen to its gentle crackle, you can almost hear the stories that water tells when it remembers flames, and the stories that flames tell when they remember water. This is one of those river stories, carried along over stones and roots, told to children, and then to their children, until it came to us tonight. It is the story of why otters, of all the river folk, laugh at rain.
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