About this ebook
ISSN: 2397-9607 Issue 166
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In this 166th issue of the Baba Indaba?s Children's Stories series, Baba Indaba narrates the story of Binnorie. A king has two beautiful daughters. A nobleman courts and woos the elder, but in time his attention changes to the younger. He dumps the elder sister who is angry and jealous of her younger sister. One day they go down to a mill. On the way the elder sister, unseen, pushes her sister into the river and despite her pleas for her sister to help her, she drowns. A wandering minstrel with a magic harp recovers her body from the reeds alongside the river. That evening he plays at the Kings court......??. Download and read this story to find out what happens when the harp begins to play.
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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.
About the author
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".
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