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THE STORY OF THE HERO MAKOMA - An African Tale from Across the Zambesi
Baba Indaba’s Children's Stories - Issue 368
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2017
ISSN: 2397-9607 Issue 368
In this 368th issue of the Baba Indaba’s Children's Stories series, Baba Indaba narrates the Fairy Tale "THE STORY OF THE HERO MAKOMA”.
ONCE upon a time, long, long ago and far, far away, in the town of Senna on the banks of the Zambesi, A great river in Africa,...
THE JUDGEMENT OF THE FLOWERS - A Spanish children's story
Baba Indaba Children's Stories - Issue 143
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2017
ISSN: 2397-9607 Issue 143
In this 143rd story in the Baba Indaba’s Children's Stories series, Baba Indaba narrates the Spanish Children's tale of a boy who asks his father which of the flowers was the Queen of the flowers. His father tells him to go and ask the flowers. This he does and none would...
The Moon-Maiden - A Japanese Fairy Tale
Baba Indaba’s Children's Stories - Issue 400
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
Once upon a time, a long, long time ago and far, far away, in Japan it was early spring on the coast of Suruga. A rose-tinged cloud from heaven had fallen softly on the branches of a cherry tree. Save for the lap of the sea, there was silence on that remote shore.
A far-off sound became audible: it...
THE ONE-HANDED GIRL - A Swahili Children's Story
Baba Indaba’s Children's Stories - Issue 404
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2018
ISSN: 2397-9607 Issue 404
In this 404th issue of the Baba Indaba’s Children's Stories series, Baba Indaba narrates the Swahili Fairy Tale "THE ONE-HANDED GIRL”.
A dying man asked his children which they would have: his property or his blessing. His son wanted his property, and his...
THE STORY OF THE YARA - A Brazilian Fairy Tale of True Love
Baba Indaba’s Children's Stories - Issue 410
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2018
ISSN: 2397-9607 Issue 410
In this 410th issue of the Baba Indaba’s Children's Stories series, Baba Indaba narrates the Brazilian Fairy Tale "THE STORY OF THE YARA”.
The Brazilian Yara, also called a water-witch, is said to lure young men by her marvellous singing, much as the mermaids...
THE PALACE ON THE OCEAN-BED - A Japanese Fairy Tale
Baba Indaba’s Children's Stories - Issue 399
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
ISSN: 2397-9607 Issue 399
In this 399th issue of the Baba Indaba’s Children's Stories series, Baba Indaba narrates the Japanese fairy tale, "THE PALACE ON THE OCEN-BED”.
A long time ago and far away lived a great hunter whose name was Ho-wori, Prince Fire-Fade, the son of Ninigi. His...
by Allen French
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2018
This story about Rolf, a youth and son of Hiarandi the Unlucky, who lives in early Christian Iceland during the days when the Icelandic society was transforming from the old Norse religion to Christianity.
At the urging of his wife, Hiarandi does an unprecedented thing and lights a signal fire on a dangerous...
THE THREE PRINCESSES IN THE BLUE MOUNTAIN - A Norwegian Fairy Tale
Baba Indaba’s Children's Stories - Issue 323
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2017
ISSN: 2397-9607 Issue 323
In this 323th issue of the Baba Indaba’s Children's Stories series, Baba Indaba narrates the Norwegian Fairy Tale "THE THREE PRINCESSES IN THE BLUE MOUNTAIN”.
After many years of trying, a king and queen eventually had three daughters. As they grew up they...
THE FOUR CLEVER BROTHERS - A German Children's Fairy Tale with a Moral
Baba Indaba’s Children's Stories - Issue 333
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2017
ISSN: 2397-9607 Issue 333
In this 333rrd issue of the Baba Indaba’s Children's Stories series, Baba Indaba narrates the German Fairy Tale - "THE FOUR CLEVER BROTHERS”.
A poor old father sent his sons out to learn trades. Each one met a man and was persuaded to learn the trade of the...
THE FAIRIES' THEFT - A Greek Fairy Tale
Baba Indaba Children's Stories - Issue 268
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2017
ISSN: 2397-9607 Issue 268
In this 268th issue of the Baba Indaba’s Children's Stories series, Baba Indaba narrates the Greek fairy tale of “THE FAIRY THEFT.”
ONCE upon a time, long, long ago in far, far away Greece, the people of Petsà were threshing their wheat on the hard, dry, sun-baked...
WONDER TALES from BALTIC WIZARDS - 41 tales from the North and East Baltic Sea
41 children's stories from the Northern arm of the Amber Road
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2017
In this volume you will find tales of Enchantments, Wizards, Witches, Magic Spells, Nixy Queens, Giants, Fairy White Reindeer, and glittering Treasures from the Amber lands bordering the Baltic Sea -- Lapland, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. There is a mass of East Baltic folklore from which...
BELLEROPHON AND THE CHIMERA - A Greek Children’s Legend
Baba Indaba’s Children's Stories - Issue 349
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
ISSN: 2397-9607 Issue 349
In this 349th issue of the Baba Indaba’s Children's Stories series, Baba Indaba narrates the Greek Legend "BELLEROPHON and the CHIMERA”.
Long before anybody can remember), a fountain gushed out of a hill-side, in the marvelous land of Greece at a place called...
The Monkey and the Crocodile
A Baba Indaba Story
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2015
A crocodile attempts to lure a monkey to the river so he can eat it. But the monkey is wise to the crocodiles promises and overtures. A Buddhist Jataka tale which teaches children a moral, but you'll have to read the story to find out what it is. Not too dissimilar to an Aesop's Fable.
THE SILVER NAIL - A fairy tale from Saxony-Anhalt in Germany
Baba Indaba’s Children's Stories - Issue 269
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2017
ISSN: 2397-9607 Issue 269
In this 269th issue of the Baba Indaba’s Children's Stories series, Baba Indaba narrates the story of “THE SILVER NAIL,” a story from Saxony-Anhalt in modern day Germany.
ONCE upon a time, long, long ago and far, far away, there lived in the little town of Stolberg,...