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FAIRY TALES OF THE SLAV PEASANTS AND HERDSMEN -20 illustrated Slavic tales
20 illustrated tales and stories from the Slavic people
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2017
Originally published in French, Fairy Tales of the Slav Peasants and Herdsmen features 20 folk tales from the Slavic countries and territories. Very few of the 20 fairy tales included in this volume have been presented before in an English dress; this will doubtless enhance their value in the eyes...
TIGER TOM - A Children’s Maritime Adventure off the Coast of West Africa
Baba Indaba Children's Stories - Issue 233
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2017
ISSN: 2397-9607 Issue 233
In this 233rd issue of the Baba Indaba’s Children's Stories series, Baba Indaba narrates the story of Tiger Tom, about a sailing ship becalmed in the Doldrums. Whats that I hear? You can’t find the Doldrums on a map, and they don’t exist in any country! Where are they...
THE PHYNODDERREE - A Fairy Tale from the Isle of Man
Baba Indaba Children's Stories - Issue 146
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2017
ISSN: 2397-9607 Issue 146
In this 146th story in the Baba Indaba’s Children's Stories series, Baba Indaba narrates the Manx fairy tale of Kitty Kerush and her fairy lover Udereek. Udereek comes across Kitty sewing and spinning in her garden and is so enraptured that he returns every day, eventually...
GENTLE DORA - A Czech Folk Tale
Baba Indaba Children's Stories - Issue 99
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2017
ISSN: 2397-9607 Issue 99
In Issue 99 of the Baba Indaba Children's Stories, Baba Indaba narrates the Czech Folk Tale of a simple, young devil who commits a transgression and is condemned to wandered over the earth for seven years. He decides that it would be a mighty clever thing for him to marry...
THE SAGA OF GUNNLAUG THE WORM-TONGUE AND RAVEN THE SKALD - A Norse/Viking Saga
A Norse/Viking Saga
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2018
The saga of Gunnlaug the Worm-Tongue and Raven the Skald, composed in the 13th century, relates the story of two Icelandic poets Gunnlaugr Ormstunga and Hrafn Önundarson, and their competition for the love of Helga the Fair, daughter of Þorsteinn Egilsson and granddaughter of Egill Skallagrímsson.
The...
by Glynnis Hayward
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2013
Insightful, Revealing, Shocking!A glimpse of what it was truly like to live and love under the repressive regime of Apartheid.In 1982, Fran Walker was born in California and given up for adoption. Twenty years later, she is on a quest to find her biological parents and solve questions...
HOW THE SUMMER CAME - An Odjibwe Children's Tale
Baba Indaba’s Children's Stories - Issue 384
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2017
ISSN: 2397-9607 Issue 384
In this 384th issue of the Baba Indaba’s Children's Stories series, Baba Indaba narrates the American Indian Children’s Story "HOW THE SUMMER CAME”.
This is an Odjibwa tales about O-jeeg An-nung, or the Summer Maker. The Odjibwa calls a certain group of...
by Anon E. Mouse, Retold by Parker Fillmore, Illustrated by Jay Van Everen
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2017
Herein are 29 uniquely Finnish children’s stories and fairy tales retold by Parker Fillmore and illustrated by Jay van Everen. Stories like The True Bride, The Three Chests, Log, The Little Sister, The Forest Bride, The Enchanted Grouse, The Terrible Olli, The Devil’s Hide and, of course, The...
by Anon E. Mouse, Retold By A. G. Seklemian
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
Herein are 29 Armenian Fairy Tales and legends. Some of these stories may have a familiar ring and others will be entirely “new” to the reader despite them being millennia old.
Here you will stories like:
The Golden Maiden
The Betrothed Of Destiny
The Fairy Nightingale
The Dreamer
The Bride Of The...
FOLK TALES OF BRITTANY - 15 illustrated children's stories
15 Illustrated French Folk and Fairy Tales
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2018
A great read for children - in summer and for reading around a crackling fire on a cold winter night!
We have to thank Elsie Masson for collecting these tales. These have been drawn from the French province of Brittany which includes St. Malo, Brest and Rennes as its principle cities.
Herein...
by Anon E. Mouse, Retold by Mrs Burton Harrison, Illustrated by Rosina Emmet
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2018
Herein are 23 old fashioned fairy tales retold by C. C. Burton Harrison and illustrated by Rosina Emmet. The volume is introduced with the poem Fairy Days by that great of English literature, William Makepeace Thackeray.
Here you will find stories like:
The Princess Eglantine,
Dame Martha's...
THE STRAWBERRY THIEF - A Children’s Fairy Tale with a Moral
Baba Indaba’s Children's Stories - Issue 359
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2017
ISSN: 2397-9607 Issue 359
In this 359th issue of the Baba Indaba’s Children's Stories series, Baba Indaba narrates the Fairy Tale "THE STRAWBERRY THIEF”.
Baba Indaba is a fictitious Zulu storyteller who narrates children's stories from around the world. Baba Indaba translates as "Father...
THE DOG OF MONTARGIS - A French Legend
Baba Indaba’s Children's Stories - Issue 409
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2018
ISSN: 2397-9607 Issue 409
In this 409th issue of the Baba Indaba’s Children's Stories series, Baba Indaba narrates the Fairy Tale "THE DOG OF MONTARGIS”.
It is often said that “A dog is man’s best friend.” This is no more true than in this 14th century legend, which has survived...
LILLEKORT - A French Fairy Tale for Children
Baba Indaba’s Children's Stories - Issue 357
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2017
ISSN: 2397-9607 Issue 357
In this 357th issue of the Baba Indaba’s Children's Stories series, Baba Indaba narrates the French Fairy Tale "LILLEKORT”, or Short Lille.
A long time ago and far, far away, there was once a man and his wife who were very, very poor, and had a great many...