BOYISLAV YOUNGEST OF TWELVE - A Russian Fairy Tale: Baba Indaba Children?s Stories - Issue 187

ISSN: 2397-9607 Issue 187

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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 releases three princesses from a spell and sends them to his brothers waiting by the shore. But his brothers have other plans and with the princesses desert him on Black Island. Here he faces a number of challenges which have far reaching consequences and which lead him to travel to White Island where he finds a sleeping princess but cannot wake her.

Eventually he makes his way back home but his brothers have told lies about him and he is arrested and thrown into jail. But is that the end of the story????? Download and read this story to find out what the miracle was and if it got Boyislav released from jail.

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INCLUDES LINKS TO DOWNLOAD 8 FREE STORIES

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Each issue also has a "WHERE IN THE WORLD - LOOK IT UP" section, where young readers are challenged to look up a place on a map somewhere in the world. The place, town or city is relevant to the story.

HINT - use Google maps.

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Baba Indaba is a fictitious Zulu storyteller who narrates children's stories from around the world. Baba Indaba translates as "Father of Stories".

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It is believed that folklore and tales are believed to have originated in India and made their way overland along the Silk and Spice routes and through the Middle East and Central Asia before arriving in Europe. Even so, this does not cover all folklore from all four corners of the world. Indeed folklore, legends and myths from Africa, Australia, Polynesia, and some from Asia too, can be altogether quite different and seem to have originated on the whole from separate reservoirs of lore, legend and culture.