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A LESSON FOR KINGS - A Hindu Tale from India
Baba Indaba Children’s Stories – Issue 68
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2017
ISSN: 2397-9607 Issue 68
In Issue 68 of the Baba Indaba Children's Stories, Baba Indaba narrates the Buddhist tale of Brahma-datta who ruled the Indian kingdom of Benares. Like in “Undercover Boss” the king sets out to find how he can be a better ruler for his people – which has surprising results.
What...
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...
by Various
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2017
The children’s stories and legends in this book originate from the plains of Armenia towered over by Mount Ararat, on which, the Bible states, Noah’s Ark rested after the flood. Here also is the traditional site of the Garden of Eden, and the four rivers that Genesis describes as rising in the...
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...