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    A FAIRY'S BLUNDER - A Children’s Fairy Story: Baba Indaba Children's Stories - Issue 128
    A FAIRY'S BLUNDER - A Children’s Fairy Story: Baba Indaba Children's Stories - Issue 128
    A FAIRY'S BLUNDER - A Children’s Fairy Story: Baba Indaba Children's Stories - Issue 128
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    A FAIRY'S BLUNDER - A Children’s Fairy Story: Baba Indaba Children's Stories - Issue 128

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    ISSN: 2397-9607 Issue 128
    In this 128th story in the Baba Indaba’s Children's Stories series, Baba Indaba narrates the fairy tale of Dindonette, a fairy assigned to look after the people and creatures of Fountain Island. As she goes from house to house she hears children wishing they were more grown up and adults wishing for the looks and energy of their lost youth. So she takes action with disastrous consequences……. Download and read this story to find out exactly what happened once Dindonette had cast her spell and what the effects were.

    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, on map. HINT - use Google maps.

    INCLUDES LINKS TO DOWNLOAD 8 FREE STORIES
    33% of the profit from the sale of this book will be donated to charities.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAbela Publishing
    Release dateApr 21, 2017
    ISBN9788826077093
    A FAIRY'S BLUNDER - A Children’s Fairy Story: Baba Indaba Children's Stories - Issue 128

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      A FAIRY'S BLUNDER - A Children’s Fairy Story - Anon E Mouse

      BLUNDER

      A Fairy Tale

      Baba Indaba Children’s Stories

      Published By

      Abela Publishing, London

      2016

      A FAIRY’S BLUNDER

      Typographical arrangement of this edition

      ©Abela Publishing 2016

      This book may not be reproduced in its current format

      in any manner in any media, or transmitted

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      (including photocopy, file or video recording,

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      information storage and retrieval system)

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      of the publisher.

      Abela Publishing,

      London, United Kingdom

      2016

      Baba Indaba Children’s Stories

      ISSN 2397-9607

      Issue 128

      Email:

      Books@AbelaPublishing.com

      Website:

      www.AbelaPublishing.com

      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

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