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May and Molly are the Sunbonnet babies. In 1922, their father and mother have taken them on a holiday to Italy on board a passenger liner (transatlantic passenger air travel only began six years later on 11 October 1928 by the Graf Zepplin.) The story of their visit is told from a child’s perspective. Their...

ISSN: 2397-9607 Issue 118 In issue 118 of the Baba Indaba Children's Stories, Baba Indaba narrates the old English fairy tale of Tom Tit Tot who helps a young girl with an almost impossible task. But he sets one condition which she agrees to....…… Download and read this story to find out just...

ISSN: 2397-9607 Issue 391 In this 391st issue of the Baba Indaba’s Children's Stories series, Baba Indaba narrates the Fairy Tale "THE WIDOW’S SON”. A long time ago and far, far away, in a land of ice and snow called Scandinavia, which is at the top of the world, a poor, poor Widow,...

This is the story of Neddy, the donkey, narrated from his point of view. His adventures are interesting and amusing, and as there has been nothing quite like them originally written in English. The book contains 1 color image and 25 pen and ink illustrations. During the story he wants his master...

This antiquarian book is a reprint of the original. So popular was this book that between the original publication in 1920 and 1931 that it had no less than 6 reprints. This book tells about the adventures of three kittens named Jazbury, Fluffy and Yowler. Our story begins with Jazbury, his...

The Zulu legend of how a maiden of the ancient race created the stars and how the Milky Way came into being. The Zulu tribe, or Amazulu, are indigenous to KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) in South Africa. In the Zulu tribe, traditional tribal stories are told by a Wenxoxi Indaba (Wensosi Indaaba) - a story teller, who undergoes a lifetime of training in order to remember the tribal stories.

The Tale of a Fierce Bad Rabbit tells of a bad rabbit which finds a good rabbit sitting on a bench eating a carrot his mother gave him. Wanting the carrot, he takes it from the good rabbit and scratches him to get it. The good rabbit escapes and hides in a nearby hole. Meanwhile, a hunter notices...

THE following 38 Finnish children’s stories cover almost all of the songs and runes contained in the Kalevala, the epic of the Finnish people in a simpler, story form. These stories will lead English speaking children into an hitherto unexplored region of the fairy world, for the folklore of Finland...

The existence of the Russian Skazki or Märchen (Stories, Folklore or Fairy Tales) was first made generally known to the British Public in about 1880 by William Ralston in his Russian Folk Tales. A year after the appearance of Ralston's book, the eminent Russian historian and archæologist, Peter...

This is the 10th Fairy Books of Many Colours compiled and edited by Andrew Lang. The stories in all the books are borrowed from many countries – Australia, North America, Southern Africa, New Caledonia located in the southwest Pacific Ocean, Persia, Northern Europe, India, South America and beyond. However...

ISSN: 2397-9607 Issue 93 In Issue 93 of the Baba Indaba Children's Stories, Baba Indaba narrates the English Fairy Tale of Dame Pridgett who is a fat, comfortable, good-natured old body, whose business in life was to go about nursing sick folk and making them well again. One day she was sitting by...

ISSN: 2397-9607 Issue 216 In this 216th issue of the Baba Indaba’s Children's Stories series, Baba Indaba narrates the European story of Beauty and the Beast. Beauty’s father, a merchant, has a run of bad fortune, he loses all his ships in storms at sea, their house burns down and they lose almost...

ISSN: 2397-9607 Issue 304 In this 304th issue of the Baba Indaba’s Children's Stories series, Baba Indaba narrates the Irish fairy story – “THE WOOING OF BECFOLA”. The High King of Ireland and the prince Crimthann are hunting in the forest. They encounter a beautiful woman driving a...

ISSN: 2397-9607 Issue 407 In this 407th issue of the Baba Indaba’s Children's Stories series, Baba Indaba narrates the Fairy Tale "Oh If I Could But Shiver”. A long time ago a father had two sons – the elder was clever and the younger stupid. Sometimes of an evening, tales were told...