Anon: 1008 books
by Anon E. Mouse, Compiled By John Halsted
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2018
The THIRD BOOK OF DRAGONS is the third instalment following in the footsteps of Edith Nesbit’s “The Book of Dragon’s” and John Halsted’s compilation “The Second book of Dragons”. Here, John Halsted, author and folklorist, has compiled “The Third Book of Dragons” from numerous sources...
GERTRUDE'S BIRD - A Norse tale with a Moral
Baba Indaba Children's Stories - Issue 95
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2017
ISSN: 2397-9607 Issue 95
In Issue 95 of the Baba Indaba Children's Stories, Baba Indaba narrates the Norse Tale of “Gertrude’s Bird”. The story goes, Jesus and St. Peter came begging one day to a house where a woman named Gertrude lived. She took a tiny piece of dough to make them a bannock,...
A VISITOR FROM PARADISE - An English Fairy Tale
Baba Indaba Children's Stories - Issue 96
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2017
ISSN: 2397-9607 Issue 96
In Issue 96 of the Baba Indaba Children's Stories, Baba Indaba narrates the old English fairy tale about a Visitor From Paradise. A tramp stops by a farm-house and asks the kindly farmer’s wife for a drink of water, which the good wife gets for him. They get to talking about...
THE STORY OF THE VIZIER WHO WAS PUNISHED - An Eastern Fairy Tale
Baba Indaba Children's Stories - Issue 450
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2018
ISSN: 2397-9607 Issue 450
In this 450th issue of the Baba Indaba’s Children's Stories series, Baba Indaba narrates the Eastern Fairy Tale of “The Vizier who was punished”
ONCE, UPON A TIME, a long, long time ago and far, far away, there lived a king who had a son who was very fond of...
THE PARADISE FOR CHILDREN - A Greek Children's Fairy Tale
Baba Indaba’s Children's Stories - Issue 346
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
ISSN: 2397-9607 Issue 346
In this 346th issue of the Baba Indaba’s Children's Stories series, Baba Indaba narrates the Fairy Tale "THE PARADISE FOR CHILDREN”.
Long, long ago and far, far away, when this old world was in its tender infancy, there was a child, named Epimetheus, who never...
A LION'S STORY - A tale from Africa's Kalahari Bushmen
Baba Indaba Children's Stories - Issue 69
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2017
ISSN: 2397-9607 Issue 69
In Issue 69 of the Baba Indaba Children's Stories, Baba Indaba narrates the Kalahari Bushman tale of the lion who overhears a busman baby crying. He sees the parents sleeping in the noonday sun and thinks he is onto an easy meal. He begins to stalk his intended quarry, but...
The KAKEMONO GHOST - A Japnese Fairy Tale
Baba Indaba’s Children's Stories - Issue 418
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
ISSN: 2397-9607 Issue 418
In this 3xxth issue of the Baba Indaba’s Children's Stories series, Baba Indaba narrates the Japanese Fairy Tale "THE KAKEMONO GHOST”.
DOWN the Inland Sea between Umedaichi and Kure (now a great naval port) and in the province of Aki, there is a small village...
THE DRAGON OF GHENT - A Legend of Belgium
Baba Indaba’s Children's Stories - Issue 424
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2018
ISSN: 2397-9607 Issue 424
In this 424th issue of the Baba Indaba’s Children's Stories series, Baba Indaba narrates the Japanese Legend, "THE DRAGON of GHENT”.
AT ONE side of the Place Saint Bavon in the centre of Ghent, Belgium, rises the impressive carillon tower with its fifty-two...
TWO CHILDREN’s STORIES FROM 1001ARABIAN NIGHTS - How the Camel Got his Hump and The Crab that Played with the Sea
Baba Indaba Children's Stories - Issue 228
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2017
ISSN: 2397-9607 Issue 228
In this 228th issue of the Baba Indaba’s Children's Stories series, Baba Indaba narrates the Arabian Nights stories of “How the Camel Got his Hump” and “The Crab that Played with the Sea”.
In the first tale Baba tells how the Camel got his big hump. In the...
A CAT AND MOUSE IN PARTNERSHIP - A Victorian Moral Tale
Baba Indaba Children's Stories - Issue 127
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2017
ISSN: 2397-9607 Issue 127
In this 127th issue of the Baba Indaba’s Children's Stories series, Baba Indaba narrates the German Fairy tale of “The Cat and Mouse in Partnetship”.
A lonely cat and even lonelier mouse, against the custom of their kinds, became friends, such good friends...
THE MILK WHITE DOO - A Scottish Children’s tale PLUS a Scottish Children’s Poem
Baba Indaba Children's Stories - Issue 112
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2017
ISSN: 2397-9607 Issue 112
In issue 112 of the Baba Indaba Children's Stories, Baba Indaba narrates the Scottish folktale about the Milk White Doo. A farmer brings home a hare for his wife to prepare for dinner. But that’s when things start to go wrong...…… Download and read this story to find...
THE FAIRY FROG - A Jewish Children’s Tale
Baba Indaba Children's Stories - Issue 113
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2017
ISSN: 2397-9607 Issue 113
In issue 113 of the Baba Indaba Children's Stories, Baba Indaba narrates the Jewish folktale about a Fairy Frog. A son returns home and finds his wealthy parents lying ill. With their dying breaths his parents give him instructions on how to mourn and what to do once they’ve...
FAIRY TRANSPORTATION - An English Fairy Tale
Baba Indaba Children's Stories - Issue 94
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2017
ISSN: 2397-9607 Issue 94
In Issue 94 of the Baba Indaba Children's Stories, Baba Indaba narrates the English Fairy Tale of “Fairy Transportation” about a flutter of fairies who transported a member of the noble family of Duffus, who, when walking abroad in the fields, near to his own house, was...
THE TORTOISE AND THE DUCKS - An Aesop's Fable
A Baba Indaba Children's Story Issue 08
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
In issue 8 of the Baba Indaba children's Stories, Baba Indaba narrates the Aesop's fable about the Tortoise and the Ducks and how "foolish curiosity and vanity often lead to misfortune." This is an Aesop's fable rewritten especially for children.
Baba Indaba is a fictitious Zulu storyteller...