ISSN: 2397-9607 Issue 185
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In this 185th issue of the Baba Indaba?s Children's Stories series, Baba Indaba narrates the tale of ?Fairer than a Fairy.? A royal couple have a beautiful daughter late in life and name her Fairer Than A Fairy which incensed the Fairies. They decided to remove her from the sight of mortal men and a spell is cast. Fairer Than A Fairy disappears and is taken to the Kingdom of the Fairies. The eldest of the fairies, named ÿLagree was assigned to look after her. Fairer than a Fairy resides in the fairy kingdom for many years and grows into a beautiful young lady and forgets her father and mother. One day, whilst passing near a fountain in the garden, she noticed that the sun's rays fell on the water in such a manner as to produce a brilliant rainbow, and is astounded when the rainbow starts speaking to her and a relationship develops. ..................??. Download and read this story to find out what happened when the fairies find out that Fairer Than A Fairy is not as lonely as they think.
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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.
The Baba Indaba Children's Stories, published by Abela Publishing, often uses folklore and fairy tales which have their origins mists of time. Afterall who knows who wrote the story of Cinderella, also known in other cultures as Tattercoats or Conkiajgharuna. So who wrote the original? The answer is simple. No-one knows, or will ever know, so to assume that anyone owns the rights to these stories is nothing but nonsense. As such, we have decided to use the Author name "Anon E. Mouse" which, of course, is a play on the word "Anonymous".