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BEAUTY AND THE BEAST – A Classic European Children’s Story: Baba Indaba Children's Stories - Issue 164
By Anon E Mouse
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ISSN: 2397-9607 Issue 164
In this 164th issue of the Baba Indaba’s Children's Stories series, Baba Indaba narrates the perennial children’s favourite, Beauty and the Beast. Beauty is the youngest daughter of a once prosperous merchant. In order to keep his business afloat the merchant makes a promise to a business associate which he really does not mean to keep. But Beauty, being an honourable young women, keeps the promise and despite her misgivings goes to stay with the Beast. ......……. Download and read this story to find out what happens when Beauty goes to stay at the Beast’s magnificent mansion.
Baba Indaba is a fictitious Zulu storyteller who narrates children's stories from around the world. Baba Indaba translates as "Father of Stories".
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.
33% of the profit from the sale of this book will be donated to charities.
INCLUDES LINKS TO DOWNLOAD 8 FREE STORIES
In this 164th issue of the Baba Indaba’s Children's Stories series, Baba Indaba narrates the perennial children’s favourite, Beauty and the Beast. Beauty is the youngest daughter of a once prosperous merchant. In order to keep his business afloat the merchant makes a promise to a business associate which he really does not mean to keep. But Beauty, being an honourable young women, keeps the promise and despite her misgivings goes to stay with the Beast. ......……. Download and read this story to find out what happens when Beauty goes to stay at the Beast’s magnificent mansion.
Baba Indaba is a fictitious Zulu storyteller who narrates children's stories from around the world. Baba Indaba translates as "Father of Stories".
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.
33% of the profit from the sale of this book will be donated to charities.
INCLUDES LINKS TO DOWNLOAD 8 FREE STORIES
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BEAUTY AND THE BEAST – A Classic European Children’s Story - Anon E Mouse
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Introduction
Baba Indaba, pronounced Baaba Indaaba, lived in Africa a long-long time ago. Indeed, this story was first told by Baba Indaba to the British settlers over 250 years ago in a place on the South East Coast of Africa called Zululand, which is now in a country now called South Africa.
In turn the British settlers wrote these stories down and they were brought back to England on sailing ships. From England they were in turn spread to all corners of the old British Empire, and then to the world.
In olden times the Zulu’s did not have computers, or iPhones, or paper, or even pens and pencils. So, someone was assigned to be the Wenxoxi Indaba (Wensosi Indaaba) – the Storyteller. It was his, or her, job to memorise all the tribe’s history, stories and folklore, which had been passed down from generation to generation for thousands of years. So, from the time he was a young boy, Baba Indaba had been apprenticed to the tribe’s Wenxoxi Indaba to learn the stories. Every day the Wenxoxi Indaba would narrate the stories and Baba Indaba would have
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