Narrated By Baba Indaba: 112 books

ISSN: 2397-9607 Issue 205 In this 205th issue of the Baba Indaba’s Children's Stories series, Baba Indaba narrates the English folktale about “BLIND JACK OF KNARESBOROUGH.” Blind Jack's proper name was John Metcalfe, and he was born in the town of Knaresborough in Yorkshire, in 1717AD into a...

ISSN: 2397-9607 Issue 214 In this 214th issue of the Baba Indaba’s Children's Stories series, Baba Indaba narrates the story of the Siege of Rhodes in 1522AD. If you ever read the history of the sixteenth century, you will notice that in Europe nearly the whole of that period was occupied by two...

ISSN: 2397-9607 Issue 187 In this 187th issue of the Baba Indaba’s Children's Stories series, Baba Indaba narrates the Russian tale of “Boyislav, the Last of Twelve.” Twelve brothers are sent to Black Island but only Boyislav, the youngest of the twelve is brave enough to go ashore. Here he...

ISSN: 2397-9607 Issue 195 In this 195th issue of the Baba Indaba’s Children's Stories series, Baba Indaba narrates the Russian tale of “Yelena the Wise” or “Elena the Wise.” A young man named Ivan, joins the army as a private, but so adept is he at his job that he quickly rises through the...

ISSN: 2397-9607 Issue 017 In issue 17 of the Baba Indaba Children's Stories, Baba Indaba narrates the Jewish/Persian tale of BOSTANAI - a story about the Jewish people during their captivity/exile in Babylon and how a cruel monarch was taught a lesson by a boy. Baba Indaba is a fictitious Zulu...

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...

ISSN: 2397-9607 Issue 370 In this 370th issue of the Baba Indaba’s Children's Stories series, Baba Indaba narrates the Fairy Tale "IAN THE SOLDIER’S SON”. ONCE upon a time, long, long ago and far, far away, there dwelt a knight in Grianaig of the land of the West (Scotland), who...

FREE EBOOK - ISSN: 2397-9607 Issue 300 In this 300th issue of the Baba Indaba’s Children's Stories series, Baba Indaba narrates the French Fairy Tale – “THE RIDICULOUS WISHES”. ONCE upon a time, long, long ago and far, far away there lived a poor woodcutter who life very hard. Indeed,...

ISSN: 2397-9607 Issue 209 In this 209th issue of the Baba Indaba’s Children's Stories series, Baba Indaba narrates the story of “The Pets of Aurore Dupin.” This is a true story about a young girl growing up in France during the Napoleonic era. This story is about Aurore Dupin, who later...

ISSN: 2397-9607 Issue 219 In this 219th issue of the Baba Indaba’s Children's Stories series, Baba Indaba narrates the true story of Catalina de Erauso who was born in Spain in 1592. When she was a child her father fell on hard times and placed Catalina in a convent where she was trained her to...

ISSN: 2397-9607 Issue 226 In this 225th issue of the Baba Indaba’s Children's Stories series, Baba Indaba narrates the Arabian Nights story of “The Story Of The Magic Horse”. ONCE upon a time, long, long ago and far, far away in a town in Persia there lived in ancient times a King, or a Padishah,...

ISSN: 2397-9607 Issue 170 In this 170th issue of the Baba Indaba’s Children's Stories series, Baba Indaba narrates the Irish tale of “The Black Stairs on Fire”. After a long day’s work, a family rest for the night after their evening meal. Too tired to wash the dishes and clean the house,...

ISSN: 2397-9607 Issue 216 In this 216th issue of the Baba Indaba’s Children's Stories series, Baba Indaba narrates the European story of Beauty and the Beast. Beauty’s father, a merchant, has a run of bad fortune, he loses all his ships in storms at sea, their house burns down and they lose almost...

ISSN: 2397-9607 Issue 218 In this 218th issue of the Baba Indaba’s Children's Stories series, Baba Indaba narrates the story of the Boyhood of Leonardo da Vinci. From his birth in the village of Anchiano, north of Florence, to his move to Milan and the creation of his mechanical Lion for Francis...