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A GULLIBLE WORLD – An Eastern European Folk Tale: Baba Indaba Children’s Stories Issue 59
2016-11-20 in Eastern European Folklore, Fairy Tales, Fiction, Folk Tales and Folklore, Folklore, Moral Tales, Verse | Tags: Baba Indaba, better life, challenge, children’s stories, european, farm, folk tale, folklore, hen, laborer, look it up, map, market, sell, tade, where in the world, wife | Leave a comment
In Issue 59 of the Baba Indaba Children’s Stories, Baba Indaba narrates the European folktale of how gullible people in the world are. A poor farm laborer, sends his wife to market to sell their last hen. But then starts the story of how he and his wife used the gullibility of people to trade their way to a more comfortable life. But just how did they do it? Download and read the story to find out how.
This 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, on map. 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”.