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    A(nother) STORY ABOUT A FROG - A French Animal Story: Baba Indaba Children's Stories - Issue 126
    A(nother) STORY ABOUT A FROG - A French Animal Story: Baba Indaba Children's Stories - Issue 126
    A(nother) STORY ABOUT A FROG - A French Animal Story: Baba Indaba Children's Stories - Issue 126
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    A(nother) STORY ABOUT A FROG - A French Animal Story: Baba Indaba Children's Stories - Issue 126

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    ISSN: 2397-9607 Issue 126
    In issue 126 of the Baba Indaba Children's Stories, Baba Indaba narrates a story about a French gentleman, Alexandre Décamps, who, in 1830, when the shooting season started, kitted himself out to join the shooting parties and bag himself some wild fowl. Despite his expense all Alexandre bagged was – a frog! Having a philosophical nature, Alexandre names the frog Mme. Camargo and takes the frog home with him, where he adds it to his already extensive menagerie. .....…… Download and read about how Mme. Camargo helps Alexandre in and around his apartment.

    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
    ISBN9788826077314
    A(nother) STORY ABOUT A FROG - A French Animal Story: Baba Indaba Children's Stories - Issue 126

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      A(nother) STORY ABOUT A FROG - A French Animal 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

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