An entertaining hour in the jungle

Do you know how I copied the rustling of leaves in the jungle for the audio book ??? The well-known children’s audio and non-fiction author Maja Nielsen repeatedly casts her spell over her young listeners with exciting questions. She reports for almost an hour in the Würzburg Liborius Wagner library of Jane Goodall, according to a press release from the Episcopal Ordinariate. The now 86-year-old behavioral scientist helped Nielsen while doing research for the book Jane Goodall & Dian Fossey. Among the wild apes? from their series? Adventure Knowledge? met personally.

The trained actress turns the supposed author reading into a happening. She doesn’t need a manuscript for this. She has clearly mastered the material off the cuff. Sometimes in a low whisper when she talks about how the young Jane Goodall communicated with her dog in her home country, sometimes grumbling impressively when Nielsen imitates the sonorous voice of Goodall’s mentor Louis Leakey ?? much to the delight of the 26 boys and girls in class 2b at the Max Dauthendey primary school in Würzburg and their teacher Christina Kiesel.

At night the hippos come out of the river

Nielsen also has loads of photos in her luggage that she projects onto the screen: of Jane Goodall as a little girl with her dog, of Leakey, and of the hut in which the then 26-year-old animal lover lived in the African jungle in 1960 to observe chimpanzees in their natural environment for the first time in history. ?? I went to the jungle for the book and slept in a house on stilts. But I couldn’t sleep the first night: I heard loud smacking under my bed. That came from the hippos. They get out of the nearby river at night to eat grass ??, says the Hamburg-born writer and mother of two sons, who now lives in Rosbach vor der Höhe in Hesse.

The children’s non-fiction series, which she has created since 2006, comprises more than 20 volumes, which also deal with Christopher Columbus, the Titanic, Charles Darwin and James Cook, among others. “A real Indian came to my home for my book about Indians because I was sick at the time and couldn’t travel myself.” Because her hometown was not particularly big, the children in the area quickly noticed. ?? And then suddenly 30 children were sitting in our living room and asked the Indian questions. Of course I listened carefully, because I also want to write what interests children.

How to rustle leaves for the audio book

Until Friday, October 16, Nielsen is on a reading tour in the Diocese of Würzburg. Over 20 libraries were selected in an application process. The series of events is funded by the estate of Rita Hammerich, long-time director of the Catholic library department of the diocese.

But back to Nielsen’s audio book about the adventures of Jane Goodall. By the way, it was much more difficult than the rustling leaves to simulate the cracking of the branches in the night jungle for the audio book. It just didn’t work with small branches that she broke in front of the microphone. “Cracking twigs just don’t sound like cracking twigs when recorded,” reports Nielsen, to everyone’s amusement. ?? That’s why I broke spaghetti for it. ?? And the crumpled tape from old cassettes actually sounds like rustling leaves when you shake it.

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