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ISSN: 2397-9607 Issue 76 In Issue 76 of the Baba Indaba Children's Stories, Baba Indaba narrates the old Welsh tale of the phantom funeral. A ghostly procession of mourners and wailers passes by a farm just before sunset one day. What happened next you ask…? Well a few things happened, there were...

ISSN: 2397-9607 Issue 84 In Issue 84 of the Baba Indaba Children's Stories, Baba Indaba narrates the Burmese tale of A SAD FATE - how a poor farm boy is taught to fish by a magical bird. So successful was he that he fed more than just his family. The king hears about his and asks the boy his secret....

Sorcerers, Cyclops, Djinnis . . . Magic. Thirteen-year-old Zardi loves to hear stories about fantastical beings long banned from the kingdom of Arribitha. But anyone who is caught whispering of their powers will feel the rage of the sultan—a terrifying tyrant who, even with his eyes closed,...

In “The Little Match Girl,” a barefoot girl tries unsuccessfully to make money for her family by selling matches on the street. Afraid to go home empty-handed and face her father’s wrath, she decides to take shelter in an alley for the night and lights matches to keep herself warm. The harsh...

The Quaint Companions written by Leonard Merrick who  was an English novelist. This book was published in 1903. And now republish in ebook format. We believe this work is culturally important in its original archival form. While we strive to adequately clean and digitally enhance the original work,...

A unique novel comprised of a cycle of beautiful and mysterious fantasy folk tales which combine to tell an unforgettable story This is a book like no other: a magical tapestry of folk tales, woven together to build a world that is as strange yet familiar as a half-remembered dream. It is an...

Princess Anatopsis Solomon wants to be a knight-errant. But hermother, chairwoman of Amalgamated Witchcraft Corporation, plans for her immortal daughter to take over the family business. The Queen has even hired a new tutor: a demigod named Mr. Pound. But Mr. Pound’s plans go far beyond completing...

  Beneath the ground of Steven’s house lurked a hole, wider than a city. It had been there for thousands of years. A hole carved through the world by a diamond meteor. But on the streets above there was no sign of the danger below. Somehow, since the last ice age, ancient stone builders...

A thrilling retelling of the Robin Hood adventure with a fun gender flip. When tax collectors raid her village, headstrong peasant Robyn vows to take everything back. Her righteous spirit lands her on the 'wrongteous' side of the law. Attempts to fix things only makes life worse as Robyn, and her...

Amaterasu, the sun goddess, hides in a cave, high in the mountains. The earth is shrouded in darkness and the people of the earth are afraid. What can be done to coax the goddess out of her cave so that there will be light and warmth and happiness again? When the Sun Would Not Shine, based on a Japanese Shinto myth, tells why the natural world is like it is also a story about overcoming sadness.

In a storm-swollen river, a prince manages to cling to the floating trunk of a tree. But he is not pleased when he is joined on the log by three others trying to survive the storm and the flood: a snake, a rat and a parrot. Four on a Log, based on a Hindu myth, is a traditional story about gratitude, respect and justice.

This myth, IN THE BEGINNING, was recorded in February and March of 1950, near Tuba City, Arizona. The informant, Frank Goldtooth, was a man of from 50 to 60 years of age, who during his lifetime had been a silversmith, a farmer, a sheepman, a tribal councilman, a trader and a medicine man. When one...

Twelve-year-old Liam Finley doesn't expect anything good when he is forced to move from Dublin to his stepfather's large country house on the edge of the wild woods. But after the first night there, Liam abandons his fears of dreary boredom when he discovers that fairy tales haunt his new home. Has...

**Alice is brought back to Wonderland in this modern reimagining of the classic. ** Years after that fateful fall down the rabbit hole, Alice has moved on from the memories of Wonderland and is now attending the prestigious Lucena Academy to get a fresh start. Unfortunately, a purple...