About this ebook
ISSN: 2397-9607 Issue 161
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In this 161st issue of the Baba Indaba?s Children's Stories series, Baba Indaba narrates the Irish tale of ?The Adventures of Gilla Na Chreck An Gour?, a story from Wexford, Ireland. Tom is the son of a poor widow and achieves what he sets his mind to. At that time the ÿKing of Dublin's daughter was so melancholy that she hadn?t laughed for seven years. Her father was so concerned he said he would grant her in marriage to whoever could make her laugh three times. "That's the very thing for me to try," says Tom; and so, without burning any more daylight, he kissed his mother and off he set along the yalla highroad to the town of Dublin......??. Did he succeed or didn?t he? Download and read this story to find out what happened to Tom and about the adventures he had along the way.
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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.
ÿAbout 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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